GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said on Monday (Aug 22), following the first reconstruction of the country's ice loss in the 20th century. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA - Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said on Monday , following the first reconstruction of the country's ice loss in the 20th century.and elsewhere, which scientists say is driven by climate change, has been increasingly closely monitored since the early 2000s.
"Based on these reconstructions and comparisons with data from the 2000s, the researchers conclude that the glacier volume halved between 1931 and 2016," they said in a statement. "If we know the surface topography of a glacier at two different points in time, we can calculate the difference in ice volume," lead study author Erik Schytt Mannerfelt said in the statement.
The Fiescher Glacier, for instance, resembled a massive sea of ice in 1928, but in 2021, a few tiny specs of white were all that remained on the lush green mountainside.
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