US EditionSwitzerland’s Ebbing Glaciers Show a New, Strange Phenomenon: Holes Reminiscent of Swiss Cheese
SWITZERLAND, JUN 25 – Switzerland’s glaciers have lost up to 10 meters of ice in one season, creating holes that increase melting and risk to water supplies, agriculture, and hydroelectric power, scientists say.
- 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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Switzerland's ebbing glaciers show new, strange phenomenon: holes like Swiss cheese
One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary rivers.
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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