Switzerland: Rising temperatures are melting 7000-year-old glaciers

Some small glaciers in Switzerland have lost large amounts of their ice this summer, amid record temperatures, forcing scientists to end some of their measurement programs, as there is no ice left.

"What we're seeing is stronger than anything we thought was possible so far," said Matthias Hans, who heads the Glamus Glacier Measuring Network.

Hans added that "some layers of ice in the (Korvac) glacier, which formed about 7,000 years ago, have also melted.

Scientists have been measuring glaciers for decades, and evaluating levels of snow volume in winter and snowmelt in summer.

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