Swiss glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume over the past decade. Increasing heatwaves and decreasing snowfall in the mountains could lead to the disappearance of almost all glaciers in the Alps by the end of the century. Climate change is giving Swiss glaciers no respite. In 2025 their volume shrank by 3% compared to the previous year, according to the latest assessment by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences. This is the largest retreat after those in 2003, 2022 and 2023. "This year turned out to be a little less extreme than we feared," Matthias Huss, director of GLAMOS, tells Swissinfo. "However, what strikes me and worries me is that we're getting used to these very negative years. It's a new normal, but one that shouldn't be there." The Alps are warming faster than the global average and Swiss glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015, GLAMOS points out. Between 2016 and 2022, 100 glaciers – out of a ...
