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Snow depth in Alps decreasing by up to 8cm per decade

Up to eight centimetres less snow per decade in the Alps

This content was published on Oct 20, 2025 In the Swiss Alps, snow depth has reduced by up to 8cm every decade over the past 60 years, according to an analysis by the Swiss Avalanche Research Institute SLF.

The peaks of Pik Kurumdy (6614m) at the border triangle of Kyrgyzstan, China and Tadjikistan. The Alaj valley in the Pamir Mountains, Asia, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

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Central Asian glaciers resisted climate change. That may be ending.

This content was published on Oct 20, 2025 The glaciers of the Pamirs in Central Asia were among the few in the world that remained stable – or even grew – as others melted. According to a study, this anomaly may have come to an end.

Scientist Florian Krauss with ice core sample

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Frozen clues: how Antarctic ice reveals our climate past

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern study 1.2-million-year-old Antarctic ice. Discover how ancient air bubbles reveal the secrets of Earth’s climate history.

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Why melting glaciers affect us all

Alpine glaciers could disappear by the end of the century. The consequences will be felt not only in the Swiss Alps but all over the planet.

The Clariden Glacier in the Swiss Central Alps in September 2025.

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Alpine glaciers are melting even on the highest peaks

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Swiss glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume in ten years. Climate change is accelerating their melting even at higher altitudes.

The ice sample extracted at a depth of 2,492 metres in Antarctica is ready for analysis.

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Swiss science seeks answers to climate change in Antarctic ice

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern are studying some of the oldest ice samples on the planet. They want to shed light on one of the main mysteries of the Earth's climate.

Valais parliament authorises rapid aid for Blatten

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Emergency financial aid authorised for Swiss village buried by landslide

This content was published on Sep 11, 2025 The Valais Grand Council gives the green light for a solidarity contribution of CHF 10 million for the village of Blatten, which was destroyed by the landslide. The aid is to benefit the population, companies and associations.

The Aletsch glacier will disappear by 2100, according to an Italian study

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Swiss Aletsch glacier ‘will disappear by 2100’

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The Aletsch glacier in Switzerland is likely to disappear by 2100, say ecologists.

View of the fjord and front of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier in southern Greenland.

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Fibre optics detect the invisible waves that melt Greenland’s ice sheet

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The breaking off of large chunks of ice from glaciers accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice sheet in Greenland. This has been measured for the first time by a research team using fibre optics.

Blatten in Valais to be rebuilt in four years

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Destroyed Swiss village of Blatten to be rebuilt within four years

This content was published on Aug 14, 2025 After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald confirmed the corresponding plans to the Keystone-SDA news agency on Wednesday, which he had presented at a municipal meeting the previous evening.

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