How melting glaciers are forcing Switzerland, Italy to redraw borders
With Europe being the world’s fastest-warming continent, the impact of climate change is being felt most acutely in areas like the Alps. Melting glaciers have altered the frontier between Switzerland and Italy because the border itself is defined by the ridge lines of glaciers – which change as they shrink.
The pace of glacial melting is accelerating alarmingly, and the world’s poor will be the first to suffer, but too few are ...
Part of the border will be redrawn because of the glacial melt, in another sign of how much humans are changing the world by ...
Global warming is causing all Alpine glaciers to recede, affecting natural boundaries and changing mountain routes. As ...
The cryosphere observation team at the Swiss Academy of Sciences reported that high temperatures in July and August, combined ...
That’s huge, yet not as big as it used to be. “Globally, most glaciers are melting and thinning and retreating much faster now than they were, say, prior to about the year 2000,” Sass said.
Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border in the Alps, a decision compelled by climate change. Historically, the ...
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