The climate crisis is not a figment of the imagination of activists or people with left-wind views. We can hear about fires, floods, incredibly high temperatures almost every day. Climate change is also taking its toll on glaciers.

Now bad news is coming from Switzerland as the country has lost as much as 10% of its glaciers in just two years.

The Swiss Academy of Sciences and Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) announced very worrying news. The glaciers of the neutral European country are disappearing at an alarmingly fast rate. As reported by euronews.com, in just two years extreme weather conditions have destroyed 10% of Switzerland's glaciers.

Experts from GLAMOS warn that it may already be too late to save many glaciers, even if climate targets are met.

"Swiss glaciers are melting faster and faster. The acceleration is dramatic: we have lost as much ice in two years as between 1960 and 1990," - wrote the Swiss Academy of Sciences in a statement to the media.

Scientists stress that the dramatically rapid melting of Swiss glaciers is due to the lack of winter precipitation in the Alps. Combined with regularly high temperatures and record low snowfall they are creating an explosive mix. As we read on bbc.com, without a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gases, even the larger glaciers, whose ice is now 800m thick in some parts, could disappear within a generation.

It is important to remember that melting glaciers mean more than the loss of impressive views. It is common knowledge that the ice that slowly collects in winter and disappears in summer is responsible for supplying fresh water to European rivers, irrigating crops and also cooling nuclear power plants.

This is why we should at least try to live as green as possible. If we don't help the planet now, we will wake up when it is far too late to do so.

Source: bbc.com, euronews.com