Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are on track to record their highest loss of mass in at least 60 years, new data shows.
This follows temperatures peaking at nearly 30 degrees Celsius in the mountain village of Zermatt during an early summer heatwave.
Nearby, the Silvretta Glacier has lost about 1 metre more than it had at the same point of summer in 1947, which was the worst year since records started in 1915.Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer visits the Morteratsch glacier for the end of the summer melt season every September. Temperatures in the alps are warming at around two times as fast as the global average, at about 0.3C per decade.
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