2009Jan19: The total mass left in the glaciers is at the lowest level for “thousands of years”, according to a World Glacier Monitoring Service report (UK Guardian).
Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/19/glacier-rising-sea-levels
Image Description: Fleurs avec le Glacier d’Aletsch en arrière plan. Photo by Josef Steufer, 2005July9. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacier_d%27Aletsch_avec_fleurs.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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