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‘The last remaining glacier in Slovenia’: Global warming and record heat in Europe force Alpine nation to last glacier

Fortune4 min read

Andrej Slak, a mountain guide, has been in the mountains for the past 35 years. The change, he said, has been especially noticeable over the past decade or so.

Faced with rising temperatures and declining snow in winter, the Alpine nation has seen one of its two glaciers melt away, and the remaining one shrinking irreversibly. Slovenians know that they are no exception to the global trend of warming that scientists say partly is the result of human-induced climate change. A record hot and dry summer in Europe this year further aggravated the situation — the glacier…

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