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Sunday, May 25, 2025
Even as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, the UN on Tuesday reiterated that saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a 'survival strategy' for the planet. The statement came a day after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. United
More than half of the glaciers in the Alps are in Switzerland where temperatures are rising by around twice the global average due to climate change.
The research provides critical insights into long-term changes to the country's glaciers and ice caps and stresses the importance of understanding these changes in the context of sea-level rise.
Since last winter, which brought relatively little snowfall, the Alps have sweltered through two big early summer heatwaves.
The report forecast that at current rates all three of Africa's tropical ice fields - Tanzania's Kilimanjaro, Kenya's Mount Kenya, and Uganda's Rwenzoris - would be gone by the 2040s.
In all, there are 1,741 monitoring stations of the CWC, including 331 flood forecasting stations but of these, there are very few up in the higher altitude.
Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study.
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