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JAMEY KEATEN

'Enormous' melting sees Swiss glaciers shrink by 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record

Switzerland's glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3 per cent drop in total volume, the fourth-largest annual drop on record, due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists reported Wednesday.

The shrinkage this year means that ice mass in Switzerland — home to the most glaciers in Europe — has declined by one-quarter over the last decade, the Swiss glacier monitoring group GLAMOS and the Swiss Academy of Sciences said in their report.

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