GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences ... lookout for a possible extreme melt this year amid early warning signs about the country's estimated 1,400 glaciers, a number that is now dwindling.
The past year was catastrophic for Swiss glaciers. According to glaciologists, the country's glaciers shrank by more than 6%, surpassing the previous record set in 2003. An overview with graphics.
The sheets are just a small scale solution and Alpine glaciers are ... photo GENEVA — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country ...
The Swiss on Sunday backed a new climate bill aimed at steering their country of melting glaciers towards carbon neutrality by 2050. Leading Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss, who has closely ...
Glaciers are at serious risk from climate change. Melting glaciers have the potential to endanger coastlines in Massachusetts ...
Swiss glaciers experienced record melting last year, losing more than 6% of their volume and alarming scientists who say a loss of 2% would once have been considered extreme. Categories ...
A new study shows that Switzerland’s glaciers have lost more than half their volume in less than 100 years, and this long hot summer has accelerated the loss of ice. The glaciers attract skiers ...
In recent months, two unrelated sets of human remains were found by hikers on Swiss glaciers; those lost to the ice discovered in Switzerland's great thaw. "The glaciers are disappearing.
Supporters insisted the law was needed to ensure energy security and independence, and to help address the ravages of climate change, highlighted by the dramatic melting of glaciers in the Swiss ...
But climate scientists remain convinced that glaciers are in retreat ... on the first of five flying expeditions to Alaska and the Swiss Alps. Side by side Washburn's and Arnold's photos record ...
The summer of 2006 was unusually warm in the Jotunheim Mountains, with temperatures high enough to melt not just the previous ... have been emerging from glaciers and ice patches since the 1930s.
At 12,000 feet in the Alps, it was T-shirt weather last August. Swiss glaciers are melting at record-breaking speeds, and may be lost in 50 years affecting both the water supply and hydroelectric ...