Interestingly, a tiny piece of dead ice of the former Pizolgletscher still withstands the warming, covered by rock debris and not recognisable as ice anymore. @VAW_glaciology @glamos_ch

These small vanishing glaciers may not appear to be relevant (water, sea level rise) but they represent, or represented, an essential element of the alpine landscape with important links to local tourism and slope instabilities.

Did you know that already more than 1000 glaciers have disappeared in Switzerland over the last 50 years as a consequence of human-caused climate change?. One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight.

RT @VAW_glaciology: Recent @glamos_ch fieldwork on the #PlaineMorte glacier by @matthias_huss confirms what our models had already indicate….

Some impressions from the bottom of the now-empty Lac de Faverges.@VAW_glaciology

A hole in the #glacier ice. Nature is just incredible. We were at Glacier de la Plaine Morte today for @glamos_ch measurements. Bad situation, as expected. Major mass loss has already occurred and melting continues at crazy rates. Wow, let's see where this is ending.

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_ch @VAW_glaciology

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

The cooling of the last two days and some fresh snow above 2500 masl only is a short and intermittent relief.

The landscape is quickly changing.

This is the collapsing terminus of Rhone #glacier yesterday - retreating out of its proglacial lake. Impressive changes going on during the heat wave!.We measured almost 3 meters of ice melting over the last 4 weeks. This is 10 cm of ice layer removed every single day!!

RT @VAW_glaciology: What drives seasonal glacier mass balance in the Swiss Alps? A new preprint by #VAW PhD student Aaron Cremona (et al.)….

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.

Results are based on intermediate observations on 12 Swiss glaciers acquired in the frame of @glamos_ch combined with modelling. Little winter snow and the 2nd warmest June have led to this situation. Final results on glacier loss 2025 to be published on 1 Oct.@VAW_glaciology

The #Glacier Loss Day is reached in Switzerland! .From now on all melt that occurs on glaciers until October is unsustainable. This tipping point has only been reached so early in the record-shattering year 2022. Expect big ice loss due to the prolonged melt season and feedbacks

RT @VAW_glaciology: A VAW team was out on #Griesgletscher yesterday, a chance to raise awareness for the #1400ReasonsToAct challenge by @PO….

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 @UN Int. Year

RT @VAW_glaciology: 🚨 New paper alert! Glaciers in Western Canada, Switzerland & the conterminous US lost twice as much ice from 2021–2024….

The Glacier Loss Day occurred by mid-August in 2010-2020, and should be in Oct. to permit a balance with climate. Heavy times!.Glaciers throughout Switzerland are equally affected. Little winter snow, early heat. Based on @glamos_ch @VAW_glaciology meas. combined with modelling

In about 4 days from now, we are going to hit the #Glacier Loss Day in Switzerland! All melting from this point onwards till next winter is unsustainable, i.e. is long-term mass loss. This is extremely early in the season! And just a bit behind the record-shattering year 2022.