According to the report made available to the global organization of the monitoring of glaciers (World Glacier Monitoring Service) in the twenty-first century, the glaciers lost annually from 50 to 150 cm from its shell.
– This is two to three times more than the same period in the twentieth century – said the head of the World Glacier Monitoring Service Michael Zemp.
Nearly a billion people, especially in Asia and Latin America obtains more than half of the drinking water thanks to a seasonal melting of glaciers.
Preliminary data from the past five years, yet not included in the latest report shows that the process of the rapid melting of glaciers gains pace.
autumn of 2014 years, researchers from the University of Freiburg reported that global warming has made the surface of the glaciers in Swiss Alps have decreased significantly; In 2010 they occupied total of 940 square kilometers – almost a third less than in 1973.
This reduces not only the surface of the glaciers, but also their volume. Since 1973. Swiss glaciers lost 22.5 cubic kilometer of ice and firn. The fastest melting glaciers in the canton of Ticino, in the region of Engadine and Suedbuenden.
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