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posted on July 3, 2008 at
11:20 am.
This article was published by Swisster on July 3, 2008.
Valais glacier bluntly illustrates climate change
Tom Armitage - Zurich
The Aletsch Glacier in southern Switzerland cascades down the Alps, seemingly pushing apart the mountains on either side. Its tongue, marked by two dark strips of moraine, stretches out across the broad valley and tumbles down the rock. That is how it looked in 1856. Viewed from the same vantage point 150 years later, you have to look far up into the mountains to see the snow and ice.
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