Hikers at the Wildsee lake with the Pizol glacier in the background, near Wangs, Switzerland, in September 2009. Climate watchers today mourn the loss of the Pizol which ‘has lost so much substance that from a scientific perspective it is no longer a glacier’ – EPA pic, September 22, 2019.
DOZENS of people will undertake a “funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside today to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change. The Pizol “has lost so much substance that from a scientific perspective it is no longer a glacier,” Alessandra Degiacomi, of the Swiss Association for Climate Protection, told AFP.
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