{"id":93443,"date":"2026-06-28T03:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/93443\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:50:32","slug":"swiss-glaciers-facing-drastic-loss-from-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/93443\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss glaciers facing drastic loss from heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva \u2013 Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heat wave battering Europe, the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) said.<\/p>\n<p>The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland\u2019s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.<\/p>\n<p>All further melting between now and October will see the size of glaciers in the Swiss Alps shrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geneva \u2013 Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heat wave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,799,197,33409,17],"class_list":["post-93443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-climate-change","tag-europe","tag-heat","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116825700813375932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93443","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=93443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}