SCIENCE BRIEFING
Times Staff and Wire Reports
The world’s glaciers thinned by an average of almost 29 inches in 2007, indicating that they are melting twice as fast this decade as during the 1980s and ‘90s, Swiss scientists said Thursday.
The World Glacier Monitoring Service based in Zurich, Switzerland, regularly measures 80 glaciers around the world.
It found that some Alpine glaciers lost as much as 10 feet of ice cover.
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