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A lover of Japanese culture, he has learned the language in the hope of visiting the country one day.

By delving back in time in the ice there, researchers hope to find out why these glaciers have resisted the general planetary warming of recent decades -- and whether this so-called "Karakoram anomaly" could be ending.

But he expressed disappointment at how things played out: "I was hoping it would get resolved sooner."

The East African Community of eight regional countries tried to impose a ban in 2016 in the hope of boosting local textile production.

"Applied at scale in at-risk populations, these modest and sustained lifestyle changes could prevent thousands of new diagnoses every year. We hope soon to show similar evidence for other major public health challenges."