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Study: Climate change sees Swiss Alps add over 1,000 lakes | Malay Mail

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GENEVA, July 20 — Climate change has dramatically altered the Swiss Alp landscape — at a quicker pace than expected — as melting glaciers have created more than 1,000 new lakes across in the mountains, a study published Monday showed. The inventory of Swiss Glacial lakes showed that almost...

GENEVA, July 20 — Climate change has dramatically altered the Swiss Alp landscape — at a quicker pace than expected — as melting glaciers have created more than 1,000 new lakes across in the mountains, a study published Monday showed.

That is far more than the few hundreds the researchers had expected to find at the beginning of the project. Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are in steady decline, losing a full two percent of their volume last year alone, according to an annual study published by the Swiss Academies of Science.

 

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