Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says

Posted on June 26, 2026 by Admin

Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps

Europe heatwave: latest updates

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

The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.

Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

Posted on June 12, 2026 by Admin

Exclusive A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’

Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France, sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.

One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing” and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsular last week that saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C which is more than 20C above average.

UK weather: warnings of snow and ice as temperatures plummet

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Admin

Thermometers forecast to fall to -2C in London, -1C in Cardiff and -3C in Edinburgh and Belfast

People across large parts of the UK have been told to watch out for ice as they make their way to work and school on Monday, after temperatures plunged overnight.

Thermometers were forecast to fall to -2C in London, -1C in Cardiff and -3C in Edinburgh and Belfast. Temperatures in Highland areas of Scotland could be as low as -10C.

Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern

Posted on December 18, 2021 by Admin

Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more

Twenty years ago, an area of ice thought to weigh almost 500bn tonnes dramatically broke off the Antarctic continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs into the Weddell Sea.

The 1,255-sq-mile (3,250-sq-km) Larsen B ice shelf was known to be melting fast but no one had predicted that it would take just one month for the 200-metre-thick behemoth to completely disintegrate.