ZURICH (AN) — Switzerland's glaciers will exhaust their seasonal snow reserves on Monday, marking what scientists call "Glacier Loss Day" — the point at which every additional liter of meltwater comes directly from glacier ice rather than accumulated winter snow.
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, or WSL, said the date arrives unusually early this year following low winter snowfall, Saharan dust deposition and a June heatwave that has accelerated melting across the Alps.
