The head of Switzerland's glacier-monitoring program says there's 'zero chance' the glaciers will return for decades given current global temperature projections.
GENEVA — 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.
The academy based its report on data collected by Glamos, the Swiss glacier-monitoring network. Switzerland has the greatest volume of glaciers of any country in Europe. Switzerland faced an"unlucky combination of factors" this year that led to the big melt, Huss said. Snow cover in the Swiss Alps was exceptionally light, particularly in the southeast, meaning that the glaciers had less natural protection from the heat.
The report issued Wednesday chronicles in detail the damage across the Swiss Alps: Over 6 meters of ice melted this year on the Konkordiaplatz summit in the Great Aletsch Glacier in the south, near the Italian border.
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