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Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet

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par Neil Entwistle, Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford

Finally, after what was arguably the worst summer on record for glaciers, snow has begun to fall in the European Alps. It is much needed. Over the 19 years that I have visited and studied the glaciers in Switzerland, I have not seen a summer like 2022. The scale of change is staggering.

Glaciologists like me used to use the word “extreme” to describe annual ice loss of around 2% of a glacier’s overall volume. This year Switzerland’s glaciers have lost an average of 6.2%…

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