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Mer de Glace glacier

Special report: How climate change is melting France’s largest glacier

18 September 2019

As the UN prepares its report on the fate of the world’s ice, Adam Vaughan visits the dramatically changing landscape of Mer de Glace near Mont Blanc
Alps

Earth's past and future ice

10 April 2019

Climate change means that nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear, and ancient ice is also involved in a search for climate change clues in Antarctica

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