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Parts of the ice of the Corvatsch glacier are covered with a tarpaulin, near Samedan, Switzerland, Monday, September 5, 2022
SWITZERLAND'S glaciers are melting like never before, an academic study released today showed, with their ice volume declining by 6 per cent in a “disastrous” 2022.
The Swiss Academy of Sciences reports that the shrinkage of ice in glaciers in Switzerland — which has the greatest volume of glaciers of any country in Europe — has topped a previous record retreat nearly a generation ago.
“2022 was a disastrous year for Swiss glaciers: all ice melt records were smashed by the great dearth of snow in winter and continuous heat waves in summer,” the academy said in a statement, basing its report on data collected by Glamos, the Swiss glacier monitoring network.
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One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
