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English: The repeated and intense heatwaves affecting Europe in the past months have caused an early melting of the snowpack in the Alps, leaving glaciers exposed to the sun. As a result, this year’s ice loss has been exceptionally high. The Morteratsch glacier, visible in this image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 22 July 2022, is currently receding at an alarming rate of about 5 centimetres per day. The situation is similar in other parts of the Alps, an environment especially vulnerable to the consequences of climate change due to their relatively low ice cover.
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Source https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/morteratsch-glacier-receding-record-rate
Author European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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