By Euronews
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Swiss Alps under pressure as scientists stress negative effects of global warming.
Scenes of glowing expanses of blue-white ice could soon be a thing of the past. At least in Switzerland, where the ice is melting on one of Europe’s biggest glaciers.
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Scientists warn that within 80 years the sea of ice now known as the Great Aletsch Glacier could be reduced to a body of water.
Situated on the south side of the Jungfrau mountain, the 23-kilometre-long mass is the longest in the Alps.
Global warming is said to be greatly endangering Switzerland’s 1,800 glaciers, almost all of which are melting at a frightening speed, it’s reported.
If it melted entirely, the Great Aletsch could supply every single person on Earth with a litre of water every day for six years.