US EditionSwitzerland’s Ebbing Glaciers Show a New, Strange Phenomenon: Holes Reminiscent of Swiss Cheese
- Switzerland's glaciers are developing holes resembling Swiss cheese due to climate change, impacting their structure.
- The decline of glaciers in the Swiss Alps has been steady since the 1980s, with 2022 and 2023 noted as the worst years.
- Holes in the glaciers are likely caused by water turbulence and air flows, leading to concerns about glacier health.
- An expert remarked that these glaciers are 'a Swiss cheese that is getting more holes everywhere,' noting the negative implications for their future.
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Climate change seems to be transforming some of the country's most famous glaciers.
Swiss glaciers' uncertain future as 'climate change ambassadors'
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That’s the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists are monitoring for signs of continued retreat by the majestic masses of ice under the heat of global warming. In recent years, glaciologists like Matthias Huss of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, known as ETHZ, and others have turned to dramatic measures to help protect glaciers li…
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Switzerland's ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese
Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS offered a glimpse of the Rhone Glacier, which feeds the eponymous river that flows through Switzerland and France to the Mediterranean, shared the observation with The Associated Press this month as he trekked up to the icy expanse for a first “maintenance mission” of the summer to m
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