Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the small village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening.
A Swiss village has been ordered to evacuate amid warnings a large mass of rock looming overhead could come tumbling down in the coming days. Leaders in Brienz held a town hall event on Tuesday evening and told residents they would have to leave by 6 pm local time on Friday.
The World Meteorological Organization’s annual State of the Climate Report, found that The European Alps saw a record year for glacier melt, with Switzerland particularly badly affected, losing 6% of its glacier volume between 2021 and 2022. Rebecca Dell, a researcher at the University of Cambridge warns that climate change is driving glacier melt in the Alps. “This melt may destabilize the mountain slopes above towns and villages.
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