{"id":115023,"date":"2026-08-13T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/115023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:30:11","slug":"dozens-of-swiss-glaciers-likely-to-disappear-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/115023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Swiss glaciers likely to disappear this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/062f0d6ff7d2b2f7174c1a8d6f736fa988d2f298-91891683.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Dozens of Swiss glaciers are likely to disappear this summer\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dozens of Swiss glaciers are likely to disappear this summer            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The hot summer is taking its toll on Switzerland\u2019s glaciers. Glaciologist Matthias Huss expects this to be one of the years with the most melting since records began \u2013 and anticipates that dozens of small glaciers will disappear completely.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 13, 2026 &#8211; 13:45\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on course for the second-most severe glacier melt we have ever recorded,\u201d glaciologist Matthias Huss told the Keystone-SDA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.swissinfo.ch\/glaciers-of-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Glaciers of the world \u2013 local melting and global impactsExternal link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small glaciers are particularly vulnerable to this situation. \u201cI expect many small glaciers to disappear this year,\u201d says Huss. It is currently difficult to put an exact figure on this. He estimates that around 20 to 30 glaciers could see their remaining ice disappear completely.<\/p>\n<p>But the situation is also critical for Switzerland\u2019s large glaciers. Two unfortunate factors have combined and are key to severe melting: the glaciers emerged from winter with little snow, and intense heat set in early in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a>\u00a0journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Swiss glaciers are likely to disappear this summer Keystone-SDA The hot summer is taking its toll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[50,101,454,28244,457,100,103,1434,102,17,876],"class_list":["post-115023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-alps","tag-article","tag-beat-climate-adaptation","tag-beat-glaciers-permafrost","tag-environment","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sci-tech","tag-sda-ready-to-publish","tag-switzerland","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117088211796916594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}