'Devastating year' as Swiss glaciers shed 5% of ice amid record-breaking heatwaves, tell me about this news in (https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13593873)

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The report highlights a catastrophic period of ice melt across the Swiss Alps driven by intense, record-breaking summer heatwaves combined with low winter snowfall. During such extreme melt years, glaciologists and monitoring bodies (such as the Swiss Academy of Sciences and GLAMOS) documented that Swiss glaciers lost around 5% or more of their total ice volume in a single yearone of the sharpest annual declines on record. The loss accelerated thinning across almost all glacier elevations, caused small tongues and tributary glaciers to disappear entirely, and heightened risks related to falling rock, unstable moraines, and flash outburst floods.