The Swiss glacier shrink: How the village of Blatten was deleted from the map

“I was silent,” says Matthias Hus, a leading glacier specialist at the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology. “It was the worst case that could happen.” D -Hus was aware of the situation in Blatten; He and his team check Switzerland’s glaciers throughout the year, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thawing associated with global warming.