A total of 10% of their ice volume has disappeared over a period of just two years due to a combination of low snowfall and soaring temperatures.
The disappearance of the ice ridge at the Piz Murtèl in Grisons, Switzerland. . A total of 10% of their ice volume has disappeared over a period of just two years as a combination of low snowfall and soaring temperatures cause unprecedented melting, according to figures released Thursday.
“The losses we’ve seen in 2022 and 2023 are simply mind-blowing and beyond everything we have experienced so far,” said Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network , an organization that collects and evaluates glacier data and works with the Swiss Academy of Sciences. The two extreme years have led to glacier tongues collapsing and many small glaciers in the country disappearing altogether. The St. Annafirn glacier, for example, in the Uri canton in central Switzerland, has shrunk so much that GLAMOS has stopped monitoring it.
Ice loss was even recorded at high altitudes, which usually don’t see such declines. Several meters of ice disappeared in southern Valais and the Engadin valley at altitudes of more than 3,200 meters , according to GLAMOS.
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