Worse than 2003: Swiss glaciers are melting more than ever
before
29.09.2022
2022 was a disastrous year for Swiss glaciers: all ice melt records were smashed by the great
dearth of snow in winter and continuous heatwaves in summer. More than 6 percent of the ice
volume was lost,…
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Global warming is causing new rivers to form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet.
19.08.2022
By using more than 25,000 satellite images, Andrew Tedstone and Horst Machguth, two researchers from the University of Fribourg, were able to observe that the runoff of water from the melting of the Greenland…
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1.5 million Swiss francs for cryospheric research in Central Asia
07.02.2022
While glaciers are shrinking worldwide, those in the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia show less change. They and the other components of the cryosphere (snow and permafrost) are key unknowns for future…
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Increased warming of the permafrost in Switzerland
08.04.2021
The warming trend of the last two decades in permafrost in the Swiss Alps continues and intensifies during the hydrological year 2019/2020. This is shown by more than 20 years of measurements within the…
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In Greenland, global warming is intensifying the runoff of meltwater towards the ocean
19.09.2019
An international team of researchers, including Horst Machguth of the University of Fribourg, has shown that global warming promotes the formation and expansion of of ice slabs embedded within the arctic…
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PERMOS "Permafrost in Switzerland"
17.05.2019
The new 4-year report «Permafrost in Switzerland 2014/2015–2017/2918» (PERMOS Report) is available online!
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