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☆ Mont Blanc Shrinks Over Two Metres in Height in Two Years -Researchers
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
PARIS (Reuters) - Western Europe's highest peak, Mont Blanc, has lost more than two metres (6.5 ft) in height over the past two years, French researchers said on Thursday. "The measurements are done on a live peak. In view of climate change, monitoring the changes will allow to better understand the impacts," glaciologist Luc Moreau said. As alarm grows worldwide over melting glaciers, the official height of Mont Blanc has been on a downward slide for over a decade. The reading was 4,810.90 metres (15,783.79 ft) in 2007.
Persons: Luc Moreau, Mont, GLAMOS, Kate Entringer, Dominique Vidalon, William Maclean Organizations: PARIS Locations: Mont Blanc, Chamonix
☆ Mont Blanc shrinks over two metres in height in two years - researchers
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Western Europe's highest peak, Mont Blanc, has lost more than two metres (6.5 ft) in height over the past two years, French researchers said on Thursday. In view of climate change, monitoring the changes will allow to better understand the impacts," glaciologist Luc Moreau said. As alarm grows worldwide over melting glaciers, the official height of Mont Blanc has been on a downward slide for over a decade. The reading was 4,810.90 metres (15,783.79 ft) in 2007. Reporting by Kate Entringer, Dominique Vidalon, Editing by William MacleanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Luc Moreau, Mont, GLAMOS, Kate Entringer, Dominique Vidalon, William Maclean Organizations: Thomson Locations: Mont Blanc, Chamonix
☆ Switzerland's glaciers lose a 'mindblowing' volume of ice in just two years
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Glaciers in Switzerland are shrinking at a “mind-blowing” rate. In 2023, the country’s glaciers lost 4% of their total volume, according to data from the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. To put this into perspective, Swiss glaciers have lost as much ice over this two-year period as was lost over the three decades between 1960 and 1990. Matthias Huss/GLAMOSThe two extreme years have led to glacier tongues collapsing and many small glaciers in the country disappearing altogether. Several meters of ice disappeared in southern Valais and the Engadin valley at altitudes of more than 3,200 meters (10,500 feet), according to GLAMOS.
Persons: CNN —, ”, Matthias Huss, GLAMOS, ” Huss, Huss, “ Organizations: CNN, Swiss Commission, Swiss Academy of Sciences, Glacier Monitoring Locations: Switzerland, Uri, Valais, Grisons, Switzerland’s
☆ Swiss glaciers lose 10% of volume in worst two years on record
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Cecile Mantovani Denis Balibouse | Cecile Mantovani | Denis Balibouse | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Acquire Licensing RightsZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the last two years, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Thursday. "This year was very problematic for glaciers because there was really little snow in winter, and the summer was very warm," Matthias Huss, who leads Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS), told Reuters. This year, low winter snowfall combined with an early start and a late end to the summer melt season dealt the heavy losses, GLAMOS said. "We are really losing the small glaciers," Huss said. Swiss records go back to at least 1960 and as far back as 1914 for some glaciers.
Persons: Denis Balibouse, GLAMOS, Matthias Huss, Huss, " Huss, Emma Farge, Timothy Gardner Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Obergoms, Switzerland, Swiss, Blanc's
☆ Major glaciers, including Dolomites and Yosemite, to disappear by 2050 - UN report
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Avi Asher-Schapiro | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Some of the world's most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania will disappear by 2050 due to global warming, whatever the temperature rise scenario, according to a UNESCO report. The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO monitors some 18,600 glaciers across 50 of its World Heritage sites and said that a third of those are set to disappear by 2050. While the rest can be saved by keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) relative to pre-industrial levels, in a business-as-usual emissions scenario, about 50% of these World Heritage glaciers could almost entirely disappear by 2100. World Heritage glaciers as defined by UNESCO represent about 10 percent of the world's glacier areas and include some of the world's best-known glaciers, whose loss is highly visible as they are focal points for global tourism. Carvalho said that the single most important protective measure to prevent major glacier retreat worldwide would be to drastically reduce carbon emissions.
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