Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years:
The volume lost during the hot summers of 2022 and 2023 is the same as that lost in the 30 years between 1960 and 1990.
The analysis by the Swiss Academy of Sciences found 4% of Switzerland's total glacier volume vanished this year, the second-biggest annual decline on record.
The largest decline was in 2022, when there was a 6% drop, the biggest thaw since measurements began.
Experts have stopped measuring the ice on some glaciers as there is essentially none left.
Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos), which monitors 176 glaciers, recently halted measurements at the St Annafirn glacier in the central Swiss canton of Uri since it had mostly melted.
