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Swiss glaciers melted sharply after light snowfall and heatwave
Reuters, Published on 01/10/2025
» OBERGOMS — Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday.
Norway, environmentalists back in court over oil field permits
AFP, Published on 28/08/2025
» OSLO — The Norwegian state and environmental groups face off in court again Thursday over three oil fields ruled illegal last year due to insufficient environmental impact studies.
The Russian past of Alaska, where Trump and Putin will meet
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold a high-stakes meeting about the Ukraine war on Friday in Alaska, which the United States bought from Russia more than 150 years ago.
US, India to launch powerful Earth-monitoring satellite
AFP, Published on 30/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - A formidable new radar satellite jointly developed by the United States and India is set to launch Wednesday, designed to track subtle changes in Earth's land and ice surfaces and help predict both natural and human-caused hazards.
Meltdown: Swiss glaciers hit annual tipping point weeks early
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» GENEVA - The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with Friday marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as “glacier loss day”.
Rock and ice prevent rescue work after Swiss glacier collapse
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» FERDEN (SWITZERLAND) - Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing emergency services from working, but that they were cautiously optimistic no more homes were at risk.
Dire sea level rise foreseen even if climate targets met
AFP, Published on 20/05/2025
» PARIS - Rising seas will severely test humanity’s resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said on Tuesday.
World's glacier mass shrank again in 2024, says UN
AFP, Published on 21/03/2025
» GENEVA - All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United Nations said on Friday, warning that saving the planet's glaciers was now a matter of "survival".
'It was beautiful': Mount Kenya's glaciers melting away
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» MERU (KENYA) - Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice blocks off of Africa's second-highest mountain.
UN: Record numbers forced to flee climate disasters
AFP, Published on 19/03/2025
» GENEVA - Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee climate disasters last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for early warning systems covering the entire planet.