How fast are Swiss glaciers disappearing?

Following a record hot summer and a winter with little snowfall, the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland network reported that Swiss glaciers lost 5.5 percent of their total volume this year.

Ice loss has accelerated dramatically across recent decades, increasing from 10 percent between nineteen ninety and two thousand to 27 percent over the past ten years.

Near Jungfraujoch, the retreat of the massive Aletsch Glacier is unmistakable, with the ice melting so far below the historic Konkordia hut that visitors must now climb a long steel staircase.

Assessing the rapid decline, the glaciology network delivered a blunt verdict, warning that Alpine glaciers have no chance of surviving in the long term under such conditions.