🇪🇸 Spanish Vocabulary — 27 Jun 2026

"“We’re just seeing enormous ablation, ice melt rates and snow melt rates all over the Alps,” Glamos network chief Matthias Huss told AFP on Friday, as multiple Swiss weather stations registered new all-time records."

"All further melting between now and October will see the size of glaciers in the Swiss Alps shrink."

"Planning for hotter conditions can no longer be treated as a peripheral environmental issue."

"Glaciers in the Swiss Alps began to retreat about 170 years ago, initially modestly, but in recent decades melting has accelerated significantly as the climate warms."

"The war also accelerated the climate crisis in both direct and indirect ways."

"Dating from the early 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD, these remnants of a necklace remind us that beneath Pakistan’s soil lie stories still waiting to be told."

"He said 2026 was “surprisingly similar” to 2022, which for glaciers was “by far the most extreme year ever recorded in the Alps, with melt rates shattering everything we had seen before”."

"AN important tipping point is approaching and decision time is here."

"He said this year had seen 25% less snow replenishing the surface of the glaciers compared with the 2010-20 figures."

"Not surprisingly, there is strong opposition emerging within the US against this mischaracterisation of religion and this war and also against the means and methods that the US military is made to adopt in the war theatre inside Iran."

"“Those lost were small glaciers, but they were still relevant in peripheral regions of the Alps,” the glaciologist said."