The tongue of Rhone #Glacier ten days after my last visit. Can you guess how much ice melted away? 1️⃣ meter in terms of thickness! 1️⃣0️⃣ days... And that's just the beginning of the summer season. We know the times are bad for the ice, but still it is hard to accept these numbers!

Hunting the extreme year 2022... Yes, I'm really worried about the current state of Swiss #glaciers! After a dry winter, the scorching heat of the last weeks pushes glaciers towards another black year. Hoping for some cooling but the summer has only just started VAW Glaciology

One month ago, Birchgletscher collapsed and erased the village of Blatten. A disastrous event that will keep Switzerland busy for a long while... swisstopo images 👇 show the #glacier front began to advance in 2020, indicating a growing instability - a precursor of the event

Snow situation on Konkordiaplatz, Great Aletsch #Glacier, by 29 June 2019-2025. Exchanging white snow with dark bare ice. This is really bad! And there's still up to 100 days to go in the melt season. Will we reach the all-time record of 2022? I hope not...! AletschArena_ch

🚨 New paper alert! Glaciers in Western Canada, Switzerland & the conterminous US lost twice as much ice from 2021–2024 compared to the previous decade. Heatwaves + dust & wildfire impurities drove extreme melt. Co-authored by #VAW member Matthias Huss ❄️🌍

Some cooling within the #glacier ice - this is what is urgently needed these days... On Jungfraujoch, there has been no warmer June since at least 90 years than in 2025! MeteoSchweiz Glaciers are in a deplorable state - as if they even need more attention in their United Nations Int. Year

A VAW team was out on #Griesgletscher yesterday, a chance to raise awareness for the #1400ReasonsToAct challenge by Protect Our Winters Switzerland. Glaciers are in bad shape this year. Cooler conditions can’t come soon enough. Take action here: 1400-reasons-to-act.ch #KeepSwissGlaciersCool

A 26-day period of exceptionally high temperatures will end tomorrow, 4 degrees above normal. Swiss #glaciers have lost an enormous amount of water during this time: it is equivalent to 🇨🇭's total annual drinking water use, and more than twice the average of the last years...

What drives seasonal glacier mass balance in the Swiss Alps? A new preprint by #VAW PhD student Aaron Cremona (et al.) explores 2010–2024 trends using remote sensing, modeling & ML. 🇨🇭 Swiss glaciers lost an astonishing 25% of their 2010 ice volume! 🧊 📄 doi.org/10.5194/egusph…

Great Aletsch #Glacier - what a beauty 😍 Melting at the glacier terminus is incredible though this year as reported by measurements by Pro Natura Already over 7️⃣ meters of ice loss since Oct 2024, with considerable melt also in winter.

Getting used to this image: #glaciers almost completely naked - unprotected by the white snow - in August... While July was good for glaciers after record-melt in June, the new heat wave again results in major ice loss GLAMOS VAW Glaciology