Alpine Glacier Loss
Some of the hottest summer temperatures on record in Switzerland this year caused the country’s glaciers to lose 2.5 percent of their volume, according to the Swiss Academy of Science.
This year’s record heat came after an especially snowy winter that helped replenish some of the Alpine snowcap diminished by three previous consecutive years of little snow.
Climate change has caused Swiss glaciers to lose a fifth of their ice during the past decade.
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