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Introduction: Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes
In 1678, the inhabitants of the Swiss village of Fiesch became fed up with the ever-growing glacier next door—the Aletsch, largest in the Alps—which was swallowing their homes and fields. So they conducted a five-hour religious procession, in hopes of …