Swiss Glaciers Melting
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.Reported by 7 of 7 outlets; wording from The Guardian.
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"If these ice masses can be saved or stabilised, we can limit the rise of global sea levels… which could affect billions of people living along the coast."
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- 1 Oct
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.
- 2 Oct
"Reducing CO2 emissions will stabilise the climate and will, with some delay, also stabilise glaciers, but we have to be aware that for many of the small glaciers in the Alps it's already too late, we can't save them."
Coverage 8 articles
2 Oct Switzerland's 'wake-up call' as glaciers melt in record-breaking summer
ABC News (AU)
2 Oct How Switzerland lost 20 percent of its ice in five years
Al Jazeera- 1 Oct This is how fast Swiss glaciers, the 'water tower of Europe,' are melting away
CBC 
1 Oct Swiss glaciers lose 5.5% of ice in second-largest melt on record
Euronews
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1 Oct ‘Catastrophic year’ as Swiss glaciers lose 5% of ice after heatwaves
Al Jazeera
1 Oct ‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
The Guardian
1 Oct Expert gives grim warning after Swiss glaciers shrink 20% in 5 years
South China Morning Post
1 Oct Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies
BBC
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