A Swiss experiment is turning an unlikely waste product into a natural shield against melting ice. Glaciers may seem indestructible but they are disappearing rapidly. Just in Switzerland, according to the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS), the country had about 45.1 cubic kilometers (roughly 10.8 cubic miles) of glacier ice at the end of 2025. […]
This video shows a glacier collapsing in Kyrgyzstan. Less than one week after a ridge of ice on the surface of a glacier collapsed in the Alps on Marmolada mountain in northern Italy, linked to global warming, tourists witnessed a similar phenomenon near Juuku Gorge, Kyrgyzstan on July 8, 2022. Luckily, no one was seriously […]
A glaciologist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in 2009 began advocating for covering parts of the Greenland ice sheet with reflective material. In Germany and Italy, among other areas, this approach has already met with some success. And in Switzerland, since 2010 people have spent their summers wrapping the Rhône Glacier in […]
