Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/29/melting-glaciers-switzerland-italy-alpine-border-matterhorn

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Sun 29 Sep 2024 10.28 EDT

Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of the highest mountains in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta valley.

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Swiss glaciers lost 4% of their volume in 2023, the second-biggest annual decline on record, according to the Swiss Academy of Sciences. The largest decline was 6% in 2022.

Experts have stopped measuring the ice on some Swiss glaciers because there is none left.

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