What Switzerland's disappearing glaciers reveal about climate change
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Glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5 per cent of their ice volume this year, what does this mean for humanity and the environment?
The trend has worsened in recent years: Over the past five years alone, the volume of ice in Switzerland has declined by nearly a fifth, the experts say. A new report testifies to the latest concerns that global warming is wreaking havoc on Europe, the world's fastest-warming continent.
In this episode:
Andreas Bauder from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on documenting changes to Alpine glaciers.The report by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network or GLAMOS and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.How Switzerland's largest ice giant, Aletsch Glacier, suffered its biggest-ever melt while Glacier de Tsanfleuron lost more than four metres of average thickness this year.The impact of glacier melts as Switzerland gets more than half of its electricity from hydropower.The amount of glaciers that have disappeared and the change to the landscape of the Alpine region.SBS News in Depth is a news analysis podcast from SBS, going behind the headlines with reporting and interviews on the stories shaping Australia and the world.
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