Switzerland has had its worst decade of ice melt on record, with 25% of glacier volume lost according to the latest report from monitoring body GLAMOS.⁣ ⁣ A winter with little snow, especially in the northeastern part of the Swiss Alps, followed by heat waves in June, caused the glaciers to lose 3% of their total ice mass, according to this year's report by GLAMOS and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation.⁣ ⁣ ‘This is really a lot,’ said Matthias Huss, the director of GLAMOS (in an interview with Reuters), whose reports cover the October-September hydrological year.⁣ ⁣ Although the ice melt was not as extreme as in 2022 and 2023, when the glaciers lost 5.9% and 4.4% respectively, the trend is clear.⁣ ⁣ The Rhone Glacier was the biggest glacier in Europe during the Ice Age, but has rapidly shrunk, losing on average about 1.5 meters in thickness this year.⁣ ⁣ According to GLAMOS, about one hundred glaciers in Switzerland have vanished between 2016 and 2022, and it says that mos...