Glaciers melting at record rate

It's been a warm summer in Norway, and that's sped up the shrinking process that already had hit the country's glaciers. Experts say the glaciers are breaking up and literally running away at a record tempo this summer.

The melting of the glaciers will make them more dangerous, experts warn, adding that some may even disappear entirely within the next 50 years.
This summer marks the third time in the last six years that scientists are registering a considerable reduction in the glaciers. Measurements taken in Jotunheimen, in the mountains of western Norway, at Svartisen and in West Finnmark show that the snows that fell last winter have disappeared quickly. Only at Svartisen were larges areas of the glacier still covered with the past winter's snow.