Scenes of glowing expanses of blue-white ice could soon be a thing of the past. At least in Switzerland, where the ice is melting on one of Europe’s biggest glaciers.<br /><br />Scientists warn that within 80 years the sea of ice now known as the Great Aletsch Glacier could be reduced to a body of water.<br /><br />Situated on the south side of the Jungfrau mountain, the 23-kilometre-long mass is the longest in the Alps.<br /><br />Global warming is said to be greatly endangering Switzerland’s 1,800 glaciers, almost all of which are melting at a frightening speed, it’s reported.<br /><br />If it melted entirely, the Great Aletsch could supply every single person on Earth with a litre of water every day for six years.<br />
