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This photograph shows a view of some insulating fabric covering a small part of the Rhone Glacier to prevent it from melting, near Gletsch, in the Swiss Alps, on September 30, 2024. A snowy winter provided no respite for Switzerland's glaciers, which shed 2.4 percent of their volume over the past year, with sand blown in from the Sahara accelerating the summer melt. The past 12 months have been “exceptional both in terms of accumulation and melt” for the Swiss glaciers, a fresh study from Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) showed on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)
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