Swiss Glaciers on the Slippery Slope
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Switzerlandâs glaciers are melting faster than previously thought, losing almost a fifth of their total area between 1985 and 2000, experts said today.
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Scientists in Zurich have developed a computer programme that could help preserve Switzerland's alpine landscape while at the same time promoting tourism.
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Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists reported on Friday.
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A probable active glacier is identified on the surface of Mars for the first time.
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Global warming is melting Ecuador's cherished mountain glaciers and could cause several of them to disappear over the next two decades, Ecuadorean and French scientists said on Wednesday.
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ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.
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Compelling evidence from a remote glacier suggests "drastic climate change," according to scientists.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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By Daniel Howden Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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PEIO, Italy - An amateur Italian historian has found the preserved bodies of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers in an Alpine glacier, 86 years after they were killed in World War One.
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Satellite data confirms glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have picked up speed in recent years.
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Antarctic glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the sea, according to several new studies. Warmer air and sea temperatures are blamed, and the changes are expected to cause an appreciable rise in sea levels.
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Landslides, floods and storms have taken their toll on Switzerland's political climate, turning the Greens into the fastest growing force in the Alpine nation ahead of Sunday's general election.
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Glaciers once held up by a floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now sliding off into the sea -- and they are going fast, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Switzerland has finally become a full member of the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), after 20 years of regular polar studies.
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Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
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Nir Tiser is supposed to be hiking in the Swiss Alps. Meni Cohen should be home with his 8-month-old daughter. Instead, here they are in uniform, with jets streaking overhead and machine guns rattling at suspicious shapes at night.