Geneva – The ice escapes in Switzerland faced “tremendous” melting this year with a total 3 % decrease-the fourth largest annual decrease ever-due to the effects of global warming.
The Swiss Ice Monitoring Group and the Swiss Academy of Sciences said in its report that the contraction means this year that the ice block in Switzerland-the homeland most of the ice rivers in Europe-has decreased by a quarter of a quarter of a quarter of during the past decade.
The scientists said: “The ice fusion in Switzerland was huge again in 2025.” “Winter is low snow depth with Heat waves in June August led to the loss of 3 % of the size of the iceberg. “
Switzerland is the home of approximately 1,400 glaciers, more than any country in Europe, the ice mass and the gradual solubility have effects on electrical energy, tourism, agriculture and water resources in many European countries.
Experts said more than 1,000 small ice rivers in Switzerland had already disappeared.
The difference stated that the winter with a little snow was followed by the heat waves in June-the second of June ever-which left the depleted snow reserves by early July. They said that the ice masses began to melt early ever.
“The ice rivers are clearly declining due to the phenomenon of human global warming.”
“This is the main reason for the acceleration that we see in the past two years,” added Hose, who is also an ice specialist at Ethazz University in Zurich.
The contraction is the fourth largest after that in 2022, 2023 And return in 2003.
The decline and loss of ice escapes has an effect on the Switzerland’s scene, causing the mountains and earth to become unstable.
The Swiss authorities were at a high alert of such changes after a huge mass of rocks and ice from the thunder ice below the mountain, which covered all of nearly Southern Village of Platin in May.