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‘Glacier Clean Up Day’ and State-of-the-Art Snowmelt Recycling Technology: Efforts are Underway in Switzerland to Preserve Melting Glaciers

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Millions of people are drawn to the Swiss Alps every year and particularly to the eternal ice of the spectacular glaciers. Switzerland has a staggering 1,400 glaciers, but they have been shrinking at an increasing rate, worrying scientists and the general population alike. A recently published study by the ETH university in Zurich discovered that glaciers have shrunk more than half […]
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Freezing Line Breaks All-Time Altitude Record in Switzerland

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Concerning news from Switzerland was reported last week when the MeteoSwiss weather balloon recorded a new all-time high for the freezing line at 5,184m (17,008 ft).  MeteoSwiss, the federal office of meteorology and climatology of Switzerland, carries out a twice-daily measurement in their Payerne office via a radio-sounding balloon to measure important meteorological values in the atmosphere. This measurement puts […]
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NASA: Melting Glacier in Chile Exposes 139-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossils

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As glaciers have melted in our warming world, they have exposed pieces of the past, from Stone Age artifacts to wartime relics. But the retreating Tyndall Glacier in Chile has uncovered something much older: a prehistoric graveyard of ichthyosaurs. Related: Newly Discovered Fossilized Raptor May Have Been an Arctic Resident Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles, or “fish lizards,” that resembled modern-day […]
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