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As Glaciers Melt, Alpine Mountains Lose Their Glue, Threatening Swiss Village
2013-05-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Marco Bomio recalls that bright Sunday morning in June 2006 as if it were yesterday. Mr. Bomio, 59, a school principal and mountain guide, attended a religious service on a high mountain meadow to mark the founding of a local guide group. Suddenly we saw this immense cloud, he said over coffee in a wood chalet typical of this Alpine village. Normally, it might have been snow. But in June? Then we saw that it wasnt snow, he went on. It was rock dust: part of the mountain had come down....
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