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Previous decade ‘hottest on record’ with polar ice melting faster than in the last century | Climate News
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The previous decade was the hottest on record, with polar and mountain ice melting faster than in the 20th century, according to the UN’s weather agency. Between 2011 and 2020, the average global temperature was 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Scientists have warned that permanent global…
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Switzerland’s glaciers melt by half in less than a century, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers lost half of their total volume in less than a century and the retreat of ice is accelerating, a study has found. Ice volumes shrunk by half over the 85 years from 1931 to 2016, according to researchers from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.…