- A study on Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers has found that they are losing volume and the process looks to have accelerated over the past few years.
- Researchers discovered that the volume of ice had shrunk by half over the past 85 years until 2016, and since then glaciers have receded a further 12%.
- Altitude, amounts of debris on the glaciers, and the flatness of a glacier’s “snout,” its lowest part and the most vulnerable to melting, all affect the speeds of retreat.
Switzerland: Glaciers have shrunk by half since 1930s — study 22.08.2022
