Swiss Gries Glacier melting at alarming pace- Reuters video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

Switzerland's Gries Glacier is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates- unprecedented ice melt across the country.

WATCH: The Swiss 'dying glacier' melting at an alarming pace REUTERS Sep 22 report

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TRANSCRIPT: This is a dying glacier. 0:02 Switzerland's Gries glacia is 0:03 disappearing at an alarming pace. 0:06 Climate change is accelerating ice melt 0:09 across the country at an unprecedented 0:11 rate. Matias H, director of glacia 0:15 monitoring Switzerland is measuring this 0:17 dramatic retreat. 0:18 At this place where we are standing, 0:20 there will be no ice in maybe 5 years 0:23 from now. 0:27 Higher regions of this glacia reach 0:29 about 3,000 m and it will take about 40 0:32 to 50 years for it to disappear. 0:35 For the lower region, it's taking mere 0:37 months to see change. 0:39 In the beginning of July, uh the ice 0:41 surface was up there. So this is the 0:43 melt that we have seen in just the last 0:47 two months, two and a half months. So 0:50 pretty impressive. But if we compare um 0:52 the total melting from last September, 0:55 it's even more. It's 6 m 0:59 6 6 m in the vertical direction. 1:04 Last September, exactly one year ago, 1:07 the ice surface was up there. 1:09 H pointed to consecutive dry years in 1:11 2022 and 2023 as major drivers of ice 1:15 melt as well as a warm 2025 summer. 1:18 That's despite heavy snowfall in 1:20 midappril this year, giving momentary 1:22 relief. 1:24 According to Glamos, around 100 glacias 1:27 have vanished between 2016 and 2022 in 1:30 Switzerland, and it can have devastating 1:32 effects with a glacia collapse in May, 1:35 destroying a whole village. Around the 1:38 globe, the World Meteorological 1:40 Organization found that since the 1990s, 1:42 ice loss has increased in nearly all 1:44 regions and sped up after 2000, mainly 1:48 due to strong summer melting. It found 1:50 for the third year in a row, every 1:53 glaciated region on Earth reported ice 1:56 loss.