Today's NY Times talks about the melting of the glaciers in the Alps of Switzerland. Over the last century the glaciers in the upper Alps have receded by 650 feet as the temperatures have increased. The glaciers serve as a kind of glue holding the mountainous land together. That 'glue' is weakening, causing major rock falls and a far more often round of floods. Flooding has become so bad that the town spent $15,000,000 to build a tunnel to channel excess water when the lake swells in the summer.
Before that was done, summer floodwaters regularly pushed
gigantic ice blocks down the gorge.
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