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One extreme year follows another. Glaciers in Switzerland lost 6% of their volume in 2022. However, 2023 saw 4% destroyed, representing the second largest

A mountain pass in Switzerland that has been covered in a thick sheet of ice since at least the Roman era is melting from climate change.

Little snow cover and glaciers melting at an alarming rate amid Europe's sweltering heatwaves have put some of the most classic Alpine hiking routes off-limits. Usually at the height of summer, tourists flock to the Alps and seek out well-trodden paths up to some of Eur...

Warmer temperatures are speeding up glacier melt and thawing permafrost and scientists it is being driven by climate change.

During summer, tourists flock to the Alps and seek out some of Europe's most iconic peaks

Little snow cover and glaciers melting at an alarming rate amid Europe's sweltering heatwaves have put some of the most classic Alpine hiking routes off-limits.

Little snow cover and glaciers melting at an alarming rate amid Europe's sweltering heatwaves have put some of the most classic Alpine hiking routes off-limits. Usually at the height of summer, tourists flock to the Alps and seek out well-trodden paths up to some of Europe's most iconic peaks. But with warmer temperatures speeding up glacier melt and thawing permafrost, which

Routes that are usually safe at this time of year now face hazards as a result of warmer temperatures

Little snow cover and glaciers melting at an alarming rate amid Europes sweltering heat waves have put some of the most classic Alpine hiking routes off-limits.

From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland’s glaciers. Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in late September, the end of the summer melt season in the Alps, but exceptionally high ice loss this year has brought him to this 15km2 amphitheater of ice two months early for emergency maintenance work. The measuring po...