‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

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By EHN CuratorsOct 1, 2026, 12:09 pm120 pts
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.

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