How Glaciers are melting away in the coming decades

The great thing about visual journalism is that, when done well, it works almost as a lingua franca. This piece is in German, but even if you don’t understand it, you’ll get the main takeaway (for the rest, try Google Translate). These models show how five glaciers in the Swiss alps will develop until 2100, in a pessimistic scenario and an optimistic one (net-zero emissions worldwide by 2050). Neither looks nice, but the differences are stark.