REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Acquire Licensing RightsZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the last two years, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Thursday.
"This year was very problematic for glaciers because there was really little snow in winter, and the summer was very warm," Matthias Huss, who leads Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS), told Reuters.
This year, low winter snowfall combined with an early start and a late end to the summer melt season dealt the heavy losses, GLAMOS said.
"We are really losing the small glaciers," Huss said.
Swiss records go back to at least 1960 and as far back as 1914 for some glaciers.
Persons:
Denis Balibouse, GLAMOS, Matthias Huss, Huss, " Huss, Emma Farge, Timothy Gardner
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REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Thomson
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Obergoms, Switzerland, Swiss, Blanc's