All snow and ice accumulated over the past winter is expected to have melted by Monday. Over the past century, this tipping point usually only arrives in mid-August on average.

Swiss glaciers are set to exhaust their winter reserves within days – an unusually early milestone driven not only by the current heatwave but also by months of unfavourable…

Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) told AFP.