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Climate warming creates ‘record summer’ for Swiss glaciers | Environment
The glaciers in Switzerland have melted like never before during the past summer period. The first findings are “extreme and disturbing,” GLAMOS, the Swiss glacier observatory reported on Sunday. Glaciologists…
Already two bodies and crashed plane uncovered by melting glaciers in Swiss Alps | Weather news
Temperatures are also reaching record highs in the Swiss Alps. Glaciers are melting there, exposing a landscape that was previously invisible. Hikers have already found two bodies and a plane…
Swiss glaciers reveal secrets through heat: human bones and plane wreckage loom | Abroad
Record heat in the Alps this summer reveals ancient secrets. Hikers have found remains of two human bodies near melting glaciers in Switzerland. A plane has also been found that…
Melting glaciers in the Alps are revealing their secrets: two bodies and plane wreckage found | Abroad
According to police, two French tourists found the human remains and the plane wreckage last Wednesday while climbing the Chessjen glacier, in the canton of Valais. They were taken off…
Meltwater from glaciers as a luxury good: star restaurants sell it in expensive wine bottles | Abroad
No less than 4,700 billion tons of ice has been lost from the Greenland ice sheet since 2002. “Enough to submerge the United States by half an inch,” the Polar…
You can also bottle the meltwater from glaciers and icebergs in expensive wine bottles to drink it
New companies are exploiting Greenland’s increasingly melting ice and selling it in expensive wine bottles. The water is mainly served in starred restaurants. How entrepreneurs respond to climate change. No…
Popular routes in Alps banned due to melting glaciers | Abroad
Routes that are normally safe this time of year are now dangerous due to the risk of falling rocks being released from the ice, for example. “At the moment there…
Popular hiking trails in the Alps banned due to melting glaciers | NOW
Due to the high temperatures, there is little snow in the Alps and glaciers are melting at a rapid rate. This summer, a number of popular hiking routes in the…
Heat takes its toll: Swiss glaciers shrink five centimeters a day | Weather news
Water games, terraces and a day at the beach: this is how you enjoyed the radiant sun The heat is not all doom and gloom, because many people just enjoy…
Are glaciers on the rise, or are they just being recorded more often?
A hiker walks past insulating foam to prevent ice from melting at the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland.Image AFP There he arrived, a seething deluge of rubble, with “chunks of ice…