This year, groups of Swiss volunteers will travel to the Rhone Glacier to shelter the icy masses from the hot summer sun in an attempt to protect them from melting. On the ground, it is getting hotter, and the number of glaciers is declining. According to LiveScience, for the period from 1991 to 2010 due to human activities, 69% of the ice cover was destroyed, and now this process is only accelerating.
In the area of ??the Swiss Rhone melting of the glacier is an economic and environmental problem.
On the one hand, the giant ice massifs that covered part of Switzerland 11 500 years ago attract tourists, on the other - the tourist flow slowly destroys the glacier, which has already retreated by 1.5 km over the past 150 years. White blankets reflecting sunlight, designed to slow the melting of ice, but not stop it. Nevertheless, the idea with blankets becomes very popular as the world comes to understand the inevitability of a possible disaster.
Source: My planet.