In the midst of the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow, the UK's longest-lasting snow patch has melted away, for only the eighth time in 300 years. Nicknamed “the Sphinx”, the hardy piece of snow has survived countless summers on a remote mountainside in the Cairngorms.

Global warming causes UK's 'most resilient' longest-standing ice patch to melt

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Global warming causes UK's 'most resilient' longest-standing ice patch to melt