Geneva ¨C Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heat wave battering Europe, the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) said.
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland¡¯s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
All further melting between now and October will see the size of glaciers in the Swiss Alps shrink.
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