October 2, 2025 10:50 AM
Swiss glaciers melted sharply after light snowfall and heatwave, scientists say
Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday. A winter with little snow, especially in the northeastern part of the Swiss Alps, followed by heat waves in June, caused the glaciers to lose 3% of their total ice mass, according to this year's report by GLAMOS and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation. "This is really a lot," said Matthias Huss, the director of G...