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Article: Swiss glaciers continue to melt. (News).
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- Swiss News
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- March 1, 2003
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Switzerland's glaciers are continuing to shrink-in some cases at an alarming rate--according to the Glacier Monitoring Service. Some 121 glaciers are regularly analysed, and almost all of the 64 scrutinised over the 2001/02 period were found to be receding.
Of the 64 studied by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, 58 shrank during the monitoring period, with the worst affected--the Surettagletscher in the canton of Grisons-contracting by 94 meters. Only four of the glaciers studied retained their mass and size, while two actually grew slightly during the period, which ended last autumn.
The rate of recession differs widely from place to place, from as ...