How Switzerland lost 20 percent of its ice in five years | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
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Some quotes from the above article by Priyanka Shankar:
In a report (PDF) published by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) on Thursday, researchers said Swiss glaciers lost 5.5 percent of their ice volume over the hydrologic year ending September 30, 2026, and nearly 20 percent since 2021.
“…just in August and September of this year [2026], even excluding the heatwaves of June and July, we have lost three metres of ice at an elevation of almost 3,000 metres…”
—Matthias Huss, lead researcher
the total mean thickness of individual glaciers in Switzerland has fallen by between 2.5 and 4 metres in 2026. At glacier tongues – narrow glacial extensions of a glacier which project from land into a body of water – it had decreased by as much as 10 metres in some places over the summer
the glaciers also lost a total of about 2.2 trillion litres of water (581 billion gallons) between July and September alone.
“This is more than four times the annual drinking water consumption of all Swiss households,” the report’s researchers said and warned this could impact the country’s future water supply.
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