Switzerland and Italy have redrawn part of their border in the Alps due to melting glaciers, caused by climate change. Part of the area affected will be beneath the Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest mountains, and close to a number of popular ski resorts.

One of the many, many effects of climate change is what they do to glaciers, which is to say: causing them to melt. This has ramifications when it comes to sea levels rising and flooding in general, but the effects of glaciers changing shape goes way beyond that.

Alpine glaciers historically delineated the border between Switzerland and Italy. Their melting, caused by the rise in average temperatures, has necessitated a change in these agreements. Glaciers in Europe,

Temperatures across Europe’s biggest mountain range are rising at about 0.3C per decade — around twice as fast as the global average

Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border in the Alps, a decision compelled by climate change. Historically, the two European countries have used glaciers in the shadow of the Matterhorn mountain peak as their frontiers, but the glaciers are rapidly shrinking due to climate change.

If there is no climate mitigation, we are going to lose all the glaciers in the Alps by 2100,” warned Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network in a stateme

The popular ski resort of Zermatt is in the affected area. View on euronews

Switzerland and Italy have been forced to redraw their borders in the Alps as melting glaciers disrupt the historically established boundaries between the two neighboring countries. The two nations have agreed on new borders around the Matterhorn,