Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says

A European heatwave is accelerating glacier melt in Switzerland at an alarming pace. According to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland, winter snow accumulation across the Alps is expected to completely vanish by Monday—marking the second-earliest arrival of glacier loss day on record. The benchmark, which measures when glaciers lose more ice than they gain, keeps arriving earlier each year, a stark indicator of accelerating climate change.

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