Les DiableretsSwiss glaciers shed 2.2 trillion litres of water in 3 months.
Switzerland’s glaciers have lost almost a fifth of their ice in 5 years.
A winter with too little snow met record summer temperatures, and Aletsch Glacier suffered its biggest-ever melt.
Ice loss still fell short of 2022’s record, when North African dust darkened the snow, glacier monitor Matthias Huss said.
Melt eases summer water shortages now, but Huss says that benefit shrinks as ice cover does.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- quotes GLAMOS director on entering 'new world' of annual melting; 5-year loss of 1/5 ice, Aletsch's worst melt
Sources: Daily Maverick