Swiss glaciers shrink by half since 1930s, melting faster: study

Switzerland's glaciers lost more than half their volume between 1931 and 2016, a new study found, with glacier retreat accelerating in recent years amid growing concerns over global warming.The ice volume on the country's glaciers has shrunk by 62 cubic kilometers, or 51.1 percent, over the 85-year period and glaciers are melting even faster, losing an additional 12 percent since 2016, according to the study published Aug. 22 in the scientific journal Cryosphere.Researchers from ETH Zurich, a federal polytechnic university, and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Rese…READ FULL ARTICLE