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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years,
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 annual monitoring report,
after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow.
The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022
and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%.What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates,
leading to the disintegration of glaciers.They’re really just falling apart.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollution-europe?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther