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Munich (dpa) - Germany's glaciers are disappearing: the last "eternal" ice could have melted in ten years.
"The days of our Bavarian glaciers are numbered, and earlier than expected," said Bavaria's Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber (Free Voters) at the presentation of the second Bavarian Glacier Report in Munich.
So far, the researchers had assumed that the death of the five remaining glaciers could drag on until 2050.
The melting of the glaciers has far-reaching consequences across the whole of the Alps, for example for the supply of drinking water to the population.
In addition, around 60 percent of all animal and plant species in Germany live in the Alpine region, as Glauber explained.
Many of them are at risk from climate change.
The warming also affects the permafrost: Without this “glue” of the high mountains, rockfalls and mudslides increase.
In Germany there are currently five small glaciers, all of which are located in Bavaria.
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