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16 Oct. 2020 / 20:41
Swiss glaciers continue to melt at an alarming rate
Swiss glaciers have continued to melt this year at an alarming rate, and snowfall on the largest glacier in the Alps has never been lower, warns a study released Friday, en24news reports.
In total, Swiss glaciers have lost 2% of their volume this year, according to the annual study published by the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
This is in line with the average of the last 10 years, but these figures are still “very worrying”, explained to AFP the author of the report Matthias Huss, in charge of the GLAMOS glacier monitoring network. “These figures are a little lower than the last three years, when we had extremely high temperatures, but still the glaciers lost a lot of mass”, underlines the scientist.
On earth, 28 trillion tons of ice have disappeared in twenty-three years
Over the past 60 years, Swiss glaciers have lost as much water as there is in Lake Constance, a 63-kilometer body of water on the Austrian-German-Swiss border, the report insists.
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