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'Enormous' melting sees Swiss glaciers shrink by 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record


Since 2015, glaciologists say Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by a quarter.

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1,000 Swiss glaciers already gone, and the melting is speeding up