US EditionEight Swedish glaciers vanished completely in 2024
Eight glaciers vanished in 2024 due to rapid warming, marking the first total glacier losses in Sweden since 2000, with 269 glaciers now remaining, researchers said.
- Eight glaciers in Sweden melted completely in 2024 due to global warming, according to Nina Kirchner, head of the Tarfala Research Station.
- Among the extinct glaciers was Cunujokeln, Sweden's northernmost glacier, which Kirchner described as one of the first to vanish completely since 2000.
- The World Meteorological Organization declared that 2024 was the hottest year on record, contributing to glacier extinction.
- Kirchner warned that while no more glaciers are expected to disappear in 2025, future warm summers will likely lead to more glacier losses.
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In Sweden, eight glaciers completely melted in 2024, reports the Swedish research centre in Tarfala, in the north of the country. 30 other glaciers are also in danger.
8 Swedish glaciers disappeared
Eight of Sweden's 277 glaciers melted completely during 2024 and are now extinct due to global warming, the head of the Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden told AFP on Monday. Another 30 glaciers are at risk, glaciology professor Nina Kirchner said. The extinct glaciers "won't come back in our lifetime and not if global warming continues", she told AFP. Kirchner and her colleagues at the Tarfala Research Station, near Sweden's highest pe…
Sweden lost eight glaciers in 2024, a sad indicator of global warming according to the research centre in Tarfala Eight of the 277 glaciers in Sweden melted completely in 2024 and
They "will not come back in our lifetime, and surely not if global warming continues," according to an expert.
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