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Heat, Scarce Snow Melting Away Slovenia’s Alpine Glaciers. One Is Still Standing – WTOP News

Researchers say Skuta has fallen to 1.5 hectares as a hot, dry summer and low snowpack accelerated the loss.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Drop by drop, Slovenia is losing its ice. Faced with rising temperatures and declining snow in winter, the Alpine nation has seen one of its two glaciers melt away, and the remaining one shrinking irreversibly. Slovenians know that they are no exception to the global trend of warming that scientists say...

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Heat, scarce snow melting away Slovenia’s Alpine glaciers. One is still standing

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Drop by drop, Slovenia is losing its ice.

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Heat, scarce snow melting away Slovenia's Alpine glaciers. One is still standing

Drop by drop, Slovenia is losing its ice

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Slovenia is taking measures to slow the melting of its last remaining glacier, Skuta, which has been shrinking rapidly in recent decades.

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