Geneva, May 12, 2025 (AFP) - Snow cover of Swiss glaciers below average this year: study

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2025-05-12

The amount of snow covering Swiss glaciers at the end of the winter this year was 13 percent below the 2010-2020 average, said a group of glacier monitoring experts on Monday. Each spring, when snow cover reaches its peak, Matthias Huss, head of the Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (Glamos), and his team take measurements on several Swiss glaciers. This year, the Glamos team measured snow depth at 21 glaciers and found densities ranging between 1 a......

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