Europe's largest glacier, the Aletsch, is melting about 50 meters (164 feet) a year. This is what was left on July 28 this year.

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sunshine_crush@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Depressing as fuck.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 31d

I bet the archaeology up there is gonna be nuts, though. Gotta look on the bright side of the F5 tornado.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 31d (4 replies)

It's 90° (32° Celsius) in the artic, I'm so afraid it's too late for all of the glaciers. I hope to see one and show my kids before they're all gone.

rabber@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 30d (3 replies)

Where is it 32 in the arctic? The warmest I can see is like 20 in inuvik (which is still too hot tbf)

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 30d (2 replies)

I read an article yesterday saying it was that high in the Russian tundra all week, above the Arctic circle. It's warming much faster there than it is everywhere else :(

rabber@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

That's especially disastrous there due to the gasses being released from the melting permafrost.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d

Dark days ahead

rabber@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 31d

Are we assuming iceland is not europe? Also isn't Jostedalsbreen much larger than Aletsch?