Alpine glaciers in Austria melting at record level
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The Austrian Alpine Club said it had never measured such a pronounced annual retreat as in 2022 since beginning its monitoring late in the 19th century.Glaciers in Austria are melting at an unprecedented rate, according to the Austrian Alpine Club. "Never before in the history of the Alpine Club's glacier measurement service, which dates back to 1891, has there been a greater loss of glaciers," the organization said in a statement on Friday.