Swiss Aletsch glacier 'will disappear by 2100'

The Aletsch glacier in Switzerland is likely to disappear by 2100 if nothing is done, according to Legambiente, an Italian group that monitors the health of glaciers in Italy and abroad. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The Aletsch glacier looks like an ocean of ice in great distress, despite the last snowfalls in July", said ecologists and scientists present at a press conference. Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier retreated by an average of 40 metres a year, according to Glamos, the Swiss glacier monitoring network. At this rate, and without taking into account a higher level of global warming than today, the glacier will disappear in its current form by 2100, "leaving only patches of ice at the highest altitudes". Worrying situation The study, carried out jointly by the Glacier Caravan of Legambiente, Italy's leading environmental organisation, CIPRA Italy and the Italian Glaciological Foundation, highlighted the increasingly worrying fragility and ...