Tag: melts
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Extreme weather melts 10 per cent of Swiss glaciers
[ad_1] Switzerland’s glaciers have suffered their second-worst melt rate this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by 10 per cent in the past two years, experts say. The one-two punch for Swiss glaciers during the country’s third hottest summer on record means they lost as much ice in two years as in…
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A glacier melts in Italy’s Abruzzo, and a community goes with it
[ad_1] This text is reserved for our members Pietracamela. On the finish of the winter season, Pietracamela, in central-southern Italy, appears to be like like a ghost village. A lone canine barks, curtains twitch behind wood-framed home windows. Between the 2 highest peaks of the Apennines, the glacier creaks as its ice melts. In spring,…