Europe's earliest glacier loss day in years signals a reckoning for the Alps

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Sep 17, 2026, 8:20 pm94 ptsTrending
On June 29, 2026, the snow accumulated by Switzerland's glaciers over the course of the previous winter had melted. Known as Glacier Loss Day, this date marks the point at which further melting begins to erode the glaciers' mass until snow accumulation resumes in the fall. Matthias Huss, the network head of…

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