Glacial Retreat In Austria Hit 5-Year High In 2007 - AFP

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Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 metres (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, the country's Alpine Club said Saturday.

"All glaciers experienced melting and retreated... an average of 22.2 metres" in the 2006-2007 period, the Alpine Club said, citing measurements of 93 glaciers by its specialists who blamed milder than normal temperatures.

The record was on the Weisssee Ferner glacier in the Oetztal range of southwest Austria, which shrank 96.5 metres, while two more glaciers in the south retreated by 87 and 84 metres respectively.

Glaciers in the east generally retreated less than the average, which was itself slightly below the 22.9 metres of 2002-2003, when most of Europe experienced a heatwave.

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