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Borders are redrawn more often than you may think
Switzerland’s national mapping agency Swisstopo is in charge of the 7,000 boundary markers along landlocked Switzerland’s 1,935-kilometre border with Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Liechtenstein.
They say that border adjustments are frequent and generally settled by comparing readings by surveyors from the border countries, without getting politicians involved.
Swiss glaciers are melting faster than ever
Europe is the fastest warming continent on Earth and the high temperatures are causing the continent’s glaciers to melt at an alarming rate.
Between 2021 and 2023, Switzerland lost 10 per cent of its glaciers with those in the east and south of the country, where the Matterhorn is located, particularly badly affected.
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“Swiss glaciers are melting faster and faster,” the Swiss Academy of Sciences said when the loss was announced.
“The acceleration is dramatic: we have lost as much ice in two years as between 1960 and 1990.”
Summer 2023 was the world’s hottest since records began due to global warming caused by burining fossil fuels. From August to September, the Swiss weather service had to climb to a record altitude of almost 5,300 metres to find the zero-degree ‘freezing point’ or isotherm.
One of Italy’s best known glaciers, Dosdè in the Italian Alps, retreated by seven metres in the last year. There was not enough snow covering the glacier to keep the ice from melting.
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