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Swiss glaciers melting fast as heat records shatter

Original: # Switzerland Its glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and extreme temperatures are breaking all-time heat records.

New research from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland's Federal Polytechnic Institute, warns that the country's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and that extreme temperatures are breaking all-time heat records. The study concludes that Switzerland faces even more climate-related disasters in the future as warming continues to accelerate in the Alps.

Why now: Fresh ETH research on glacier melt and record heat is drawing attention amid ongoing concern over Alpine climate change.

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• # Switzerland Its glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and extreme temperatures are breaking all-time heat records. But even more climate disasters will befall Switzerland in the future, a new study reveals. New research from the Federal Polytechnic Institute (ETH) in… · Snoro · 7

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