Purely anecdotal, but I was staggered by the recession of snow-lines and glaciers in the Alps when comparing photos taken on holiday in '66 to what I saw on a visit last year.

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Purely anecdotal, but I was staggered by the recession of snow-lines and glaciers in the Alps when comparing photos taken on holiday in '66 to what I saw on a visit last year.

"Until recently, glaciologists in the Alps used to consider 2% of ice lost in a single year to be "extreme".

Then 2022 blew that idea out of the water, with nearly 6% of Switzerland's remaining ice lost in a single year.

That has been followed by significant losses in 2023, 2024 and now 2025 too."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce32ezzq6zlo