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Switzerland’s glaciers are reaching a threshold that extends beyond ice loss.

The Gorner Glacier above Zermatt, now the third-largest glacier in Switzerland (having been surpassed by the Fiescher Glacier due to fragmentation), shrank by significantly more than 10% over the last half-century. It dropped from 59.73 km² in 1973 to an estimated <41 km² by 2023, as confirmed by the catastrophic melt rates reported by GLAMOS/Glacier Mo…