Switzerland’s glaciers have decreased by around 50 percent within 85 years – and are now melting at an even faster rate.
Experts studied tens of thousands of period photographs from 1931 onward to reconstruct early 20th-century climate patterns. Between 1931 and 2016 the glaciers lost almost half their volume, says the study. But between 2016 and 2021, they lost a further 12 percent.
