How Switzerland Lost 20 Percent of Its Ice in Five Years
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The Alps have been experiencing massive glacier retreat in recent years. In Switzerland alone, almost six percent of the glacier volume has disappeared this year, and almost twenty percent in the past five years. The long-term retreat of glaciers is mainly caused by climate warming, and this year's losses have been exacerbated by extreme heat and a lack of snow.
Glaciers in the Swiss Alps have shrunk by approximately 20 percent in the last five years due to climate-related temperature increases. A report prepared jointly by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Cryosphere Monitoring Commission states that record temperatures following a winter with insufficient rainfall have caused the melting to reach historical levels...
Swiss glaciers are disappearing. According to a report released by Glamos (Glacier Monitoring Switzerland), which for years has been involved in documenting and monitoring changes in...
Switzerland has lost almost a fifth of its glaciers in just five years, research reveals, in a dramatic transformation of the Alpine country.
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