Swiss glaciers continue to melt. (News).

Swiss News | March 1, 2003 | Copyright

Switzerland's glaciers are continuing to shrink-in some cases at an alarming rate--according to the Glacier Monitoring Service. Some 121 glaciers are regularly analysed, and almost all of the 64 scrutinised over the 2001/02 period were found to be receding.

Of the 64 studied by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, 58 shrank during the monitoring period, with the worst affected--the Surettagletscher in the canton of Grisons-contracting by 94 meters. Only four of the glaciers studied retained their mass and size, while two actually grew slightly during the period, ...

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