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As Glaciers Melt, Alpine Mountains Lose Their Glue, Threatening Swiss Village
2013-05-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Marco Bomio recalls that bright Sunday morning in June 2006 as if it were yesterday. Mr. Bomio, 59, a school principal and mountain guide, attended a religious service on a high mountain meadow to mark the founding of a local guide group. Suddenly we saw this immense cloud, he said over coffee in a wood chalet typical of this Alpine village. Normally, it might have been snow. But in June? Then we saw that it wasnt snow, he went on. It was rock dust: part of the mountain had come down....
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Land o' lakes: Melting glaciers transform Alpine landscape
2013-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Climate change is dramatically altering the Swiss Alps, where hundreds of bodies of water are being created by melting glaciers. Though the lakes can attract tourists and even generate electricity, local residents also fear catastrophic tidal waves. In the 1990s, the first cracks began to appear in the mighty tongue of the Trift Glacier in the central Swiss canton of Bern. In 2002, the peak of the ice mass burst into thousands of pieces. Since it lay in a hollow, the water swelled into a lake...
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