Glaciers in the Alps have shrunk 39% in the last two decades, satellite data reveals
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 () British startup Earthwave and a group of European scientists have used satellite data to map out glacial melt across the globe — and the results are alarming. The team discovered that the European Alps’ glaciers have shrunk the most of all — 39% in just over two decades, compared to a global average of 5%. Earthwave co-founder Livia Jakob said the project was invaluable to our understanding of glacier ice loss. “We developed an algorithm to combine all the different datasets into one common estimate of glacier mass balance, giving us a new and improved picture of glacier behaviour in…
Our planet is getting warmer every year, but over the last couple of years in the Swiss alps that’s on epic display. And while glaciers in Switzerland lost a record amount of ice last year, 2023 was..
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 ()
British startup Earthwave and a group of European scientists have used satellite data to map out glacial melt across the globe — and the results are alarming. The team discovered that the European Alps’ glaciers have shrunk the most of all — 39% in just over two decades, compared to a global average of 5%. Earthwave co-founder Livia Jakob said the project was invaluable to our understanding of glacier ice loss. “We developed an algorithm to combine all the different datasets into one common estimate of glacier mass balance, giving us a new and improved picture of glacier behaviour in…![Did You Know That Glaciers in Switzerland Have Lost 3-Decades Worth of Ice in the Last 2 Years [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20250217/1402444320-Did-You-Know-That-Glaciers-in-Switzerland-Have.jpg)
