Swiss Town Covers its Glacier with White Blanket Every Summer to Prevent Melting Caused by Climate Change For the last eight years, a group of locals makes their way to the Rhône Glacier, the oldest glacier in the Alps, every summer to cover over the ice in massive white blankets that reflect the sun, in order to prevent melting caused by climate change. In the last 10-years, about 131 feet of the roughly 5-mile-long glacier has disappeared, reports the […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 14, 2018 0 Comments