‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
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Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an a…
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- ‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsThe Guardian World