# @cgtneurope on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-10-01T15:15:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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‘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.⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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According to GLAMOS, about one hundred glaciers in Switzerland have vanished between 2016 and 2022, and it says that most could disappear by the end of the century.⁣
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#climate #climatechange #glaciers #switzerland #swissalps #risingtemperatures #ice

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ice, risingtemperatures, climatechange, glaciers, swissalps, climate, switzerland

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