Article from the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) website, August 21; original title: Glacial melt is taking the world with it. Nowadays, whenever glaciers are mentioned, the conversation almost invariably turns to their melting. According to data from Swiss glacier monitoring programs, more than 1,100 small glaciers in Switzerland have vanished since the early 1970s, and existing glaciers are melting rapidly. By the period between 2050 and 2070, Switzerland may be virtually devoid of glaciers, with perhaps only a few large ones remaining
The melting of glaciers is also carrying away the entire world
