Global glacier melt continues

Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 17:21 in Earth & Climate

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness of roughly 0.67 metre water equivalent (m w.e.). Some glaciers in the European Alps lost up to 2.5 m w.e....

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