Monitor sounds alarm over glacier loss

Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said yesterday.

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A winter with little snow, especially in the northeastern part of the Swiss Alps, followed by heat waves in June, caused the glaciers to lose 3% of their total ice mass, according to this year’s report by GLAMOS and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation.

“This is really a lot,’ said Matthias Huss, the director of GLAMOS, whose reports cover the October-September hydrological year.