Eight Swedish glaciers disappeared in 2024: expert | News

STOCKHOLM, Sept 22, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Eight of Sweden's 277 glaciers meltedcompletely during 2024 and are now extinct due to global warming, the head ofthe Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden told AFP on Monday. Another 30 glaciers are at risk, glaciology professor Nina Kirchner said. The extinct glaciers "won't come back in our lifetime and not if globalwarming continues", she told AFP. Kirchner and her colleagues at the Tarfala Research Station, near Sweden'shighest peak Kebnekaise in the far north, study satellite images of thecountry's glaciers every year to track their development. "At the beginning of 2025, when we sat down to do our 2024 update to see whenthe glaciers were at their smallest, we couldn't find eight of the...