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Swiss glaciers melt at record rate, lose over 6% volume in 2022

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Swiss glaciers have recorded their worst melt rate since records began more than a century ago. They lost 6% of their remaining volume this year or nearly double the previous record of 2003. Bare rock that had been buried for millennia has reemerged, as has a plane and bodies that went missing decades ago. More than half of the glaciers in the Alps are in Switzerland.

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News18 India

Swiss Glaciers Lost 6% Volume in 2022, Shattering Previous Ice Melt Records, Reveals Report

The study by the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences laid bare the drastic scale of glacial retreat -- which is only set to get worse

2 years ago·India

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Reuters

Worst melt year on record for Swiss glaciers, data shows

Swiss glaciers have recorded their worst melt rate since records began more than a century ago, losing 6% of their remaining volume this year or nearly double the previous record of 2003, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday,

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Study: Heatwave led to unprecedented melt of Swiss glaciers

Switzerland’s glaciers are melting like never before, an academic study shows, with their ice volume declining by 6 percent in a “disastrous” 2022 amid rising concerns about global warming and a summer heat wave that swept across Europe.

2 years ago·United States

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abc News

Study: Heat wave led to unprecedented melt of Swiss glaciers

An academic study says Switzerland’s glaciers are melting like never before

2 years ago·United States

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CNN

Swiss glaciers see worst melt on record in back-to-back heat waves

The melt was so extreme this year that bare rock that had remained buried for millenia re-emerged at one site while bodies and even a plane lost elsewhere in the Alps decades ago were recovered. Other small glaciers all but vanished.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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Washington Times

Study: Heat wave led to unprecedented melt of Swiss glaciers

Switzerland's glaciers are melting like never before, an academic study released Wednesday found, with their ice volume declining by 6% this year amid rising concerns about global warming and a summer heat wave that swept across Europe.

2 years ago·United States

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