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Experts explained what threatens the melting of glaciers
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The cause of rapid melting was the low snow and waves of heat in the summer, the Swiss commission for monitoring the cryosphere reports, the Swiss commission, the Swiss Commission writes Reuters.
Over the last year, glaciers were not as extreme as in 2022 and 2023, when they lost 5.9% and 4.4% of their weight, respectively. However, the negative trend persists.
Over the last decade, Switzerland has recorded the strongest melting of glaciers in the history of observations. Since 2015, they have lost a quarter of their volume, said the Swiss Glamos Glamos Mattias Glamos Monitoring Group.
For example, the Ron glacier was the largest in Europe during the Ice Age, but now it is declining rapidly. This year, in the average glacier, it lost about 1.5 meters thick.
Over the past 12 months, glaciers were particularly affected below three thousand meters above sea level. In particular, because of the lowest amount of snowfall in the last about 100 years, powerful melting has been suffered by Silwretta glacier.
“It’s really a lot”– rated the latest data on the melting of glaciers Matthias GUSS.
According to GLAMOS, about one hundred glaciers in Switzerland disappeared between 2016 and 2022. Scientists suggest that most will disappear at all by the end of the century.
“Unfortunately we can do little to save glaciers. They will continue to retreat, even if the climate is stabilized today,” – says the specialist.
It adds that up to 200 glaciers at high altitudes can be saved if carbon dioxide emissions fall to zero worldwide over the next 30 years.
GUSS also warned that the reduction of glaciers contributes to the destabilization of mountains. This can cause avalanches of rocks and ice, similar to that destroyed Swiss village Blatten in May 2025.
Earlier scientists discoveredthat the Ganges River in Asia, which provides more than 600 million people with water, is experiencing significant drought. Because of this, many areas have become impassable for ships, wells dry, and water is not enough to irrigate the fields.
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Experts explained what threatens the melting of glaciers
Photo: Simona171/Depositphotos
The cause of rapid melting was the low snow and waves of heat in the summer, the Swiss commission for monitoring the cryosphere reports, the Swiss commission, the Swiss Commission writes Reuters.
Over the last year, glaciers were not as extreme as in 2022 and 2023, when they lost 5.9% and 4.4% of their weight, respectively. However, the negative trend persists.
Over the last decade, Switzerland has recorded the strongest melting of glaciers in the history of observations. Since 2015, they have lost a quarter of their volume, said the Swiss Glamos Glamos Mattias Glamos Monitoring Group.
For example, the Ron glacier was the largest in Europe during the Ice Age, but now it is declining rapidly. This year, in the average glacier, it lost about 1.5 meters thick.
Over the past 12 months, glaciers were particularly affected below three thousand meters above sea level. In particular, because of the lowest amount of snowfall in the last about 100 years, powerful melting has been suffered by Silwretta glacier.
“It’s really a lot”– rated the latest data on the melting of glaciers Matthias GUSS.
According to GLAMOS, about one hundred glaciers in Switzerland disappeared between 2016 and 2022. Scientists suggest that most will disappear at all by the end of the century.
“Unfortunately we can do little to save glaciers. They will continue to retreat, even if the climate is stabilized today,” – says the specialist.
It adds that up to 200 glaciers at high altitudes can be saved if carbon dioxide emissions fall to zero worldwide over the next 30 years.
GUSS also warned that the reduction of glaciers contributes to the destabilization of mountains. This can cause avalanches of rocks and ice, similar to that destroyed Swiss village Blatten in May 2025.
Earlier scientists discoveredthat the Ganges River in Asia, which provides more than 600 million people with water, is experiencing significant drought. Because of this, many areas have become impassable for ships, wells dry, and water is not enough to irrigate the fields.