Italy and Switzerland have agreed to shift their shared border in the Alps. Here’s why
Part of the border will shift because of the glacial melt, in another sign of how much humans are changing the world by ...
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Swiss Glaciers Recede by More Than 10 Percent in Two Years
More FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images Home to more glaciers than any other country in Europe, Switzerland recently redrew its border with Italy due to melting glaciers in the Alps ...
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Woman Can't Believe How Boyfriend Dressed for Snowy Mountain Trip
The Jungfraujoch is a saddle area connecting the Jungfrau and the Mönch peaks of the Bernese Alps. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch region is ...
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Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024
The cryosphere observation team at the Swiss Academy of Sciences reports that high temperatures in July and August and a sprinkling heat-absorbing dust from the Sahara on the Alps led to a loss of ...
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Switzerland's borders are shifting as climate change moves mountains and melts glaciers
The outline of a country's borders is usually a permanent affair — or if not, a heavily contested one. But for countries that share borders of snow-capped peaks and glaciers, melting ice can ...
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Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of their border
one of the highest summits in the Alps, which overlooks Zermatt, a popular skiing destination. While national boundaries are often thought of as fixed, large sections of the Swiss-Italian border ...
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Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024
Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%.