HUGE piece of a Swiss mountain to break away
Posted: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 by StanleyTags: Climate Change, Latest News
A rock the size of TWO empire state buildings is set to crumble off the side of a mountain in the Swiss Alps any day now. The cause is a receding glacier due to unusually hot summers in recent years. The melting ice is removing the support of this cliff face.
Tourists have flocked to the area to try and catch a glimpse of the break-away.
"Glaciers in the Alps may have lost up to a tenth of their volume in the hot 2003 summer alone, researchers at Zurich university have said, and the ice now only occupies between half and a third of its volume in 1850." [MSNBC.com]
Swiss cliff crumbles as glacier retreats » [MSNBC.com]
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