- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6310869.stm Melting of glaciers 'speeds up' Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, scientists have announced. "We will enter conditions which we have not seen in the past 10,000 years, and perhaps conditions which mankind has never experienced " Wilfried Haeberli, WGMS