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Matthias Huss, of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, stands at the Rhone Glacier that is partially covered with sheets near Goms, Switzerland, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
See photos of a Swiss glacier melting in the heat of climate change
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle.

The number has been dwindling. The Alpine country has already lost up to 1,000 small glaciers, and the bigger ones are increasingly at risk.
 
Matthias Huss, of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, stands at the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Switzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese
One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers.
 
An Inter fan, wearing an effigy of Lautaro Martinez on her head reacts ahead of the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan in Munich, Germany, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP PHOTOS: Players and fans prepare for the Champions League final
Fans and players are getting ready for the Champions League final in Munich on Saturday.

European men’s club showpiece pits French champion Paris Saint-Germain against Italian runner-up Inter Milan.
 
Men dressed in traditional clothes try to pull the opponent over the table at the German Championships in Fingerhakeln or finger wrestling, in Pang, near Rosenheim, Germany, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
AP PHOTOS: Bloody fingers are just part of the game in this traditional German sport
It’s thought that finger wrestling, popular in Germany’s Alpine region and neighboring Austria, originated as a way to settle disputes. The earliest depictions of the sport date to the 19th century. Participants wore the traditional Bavarian dress known as tracht.
 
Women in traditional costumes of the region drink Schnaps after the traditional Leonhardi pilgrimage in Warngau near Munich, Germany, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. The annual pilgrimage honors St. Leonhard, patron saint of the highland farmers for horses and livestock. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Bavarian tradition honors St. Leonhard, patron saint of farmers, horses and livestock
Farmers and their horses have walked in a colorful parade through the small Bavarian town of Warngau to honor their patron saint, St. Leonhard. The traditional pilgrimage dates back centuries in Bavaria and Austria.
 
Police officers patrol near a scene after police fired shots at a suspicious person near the Israeli Consulate and a museum on the city's Nazi-era history in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Munich police fatally shoot a man they believe was planning to attack the Israeli Consulate
Police in Munich have exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich, fatally wounding him. Authorities say they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
 
The Tiefenbachferner Glacier, part of glacier ski resort Soelden, with Wildspitze mountain is visible near Innsbruck, Austria, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
AP PHOTOS: As Alpine glaciers slowly disappear, new landscapes are appearing in their place
Ski lifts, resorts, cabins and huts dot the landscape — and have done so for decades.
 
A group walks to the Jamtalferner Glacier near Galtuer, Austria, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria’s melting glaciers are in their final decades
Andrea Fischer, a glaciologist with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has witnessed this significant glacier retreat. She and her team measure the ice to understand how climate change affects the glaciers, now and in the future. In the last few years, the Austrian glaciers have started losing mass f
 
Saddler Klaus Bensmann works in his store in Bad Hindelang, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Bensmann produces tailored leather trousers and vests with hand embroidery. The leather comes from the alpine region and is tanned in Germany. For the upcoming Oktoberfest, many visitors like to wear the traditional dress. The 189th Oktoberfest, the world's biggest beer festival, runs from Sept. 16 through Oct. 3, 2023.(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
A German tailor who specializes in bespoke lederhosen is in high demand ahead of Oktoberfest
Germany’s city of Munich is getting ready to tap the kegs for Oktoberfest. That means Bavaria state residents and foreign regulars of the world’s most conspicuous beer party are getting ready to drink and celebrate while showing off their traditional lederhosen.
 
A steam train travels through the Harz mountains where the trees are destroyed by the bark beetle and drought, near Schierke, Germany, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse
Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany’s Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients.
 
Solar panels are mounted on poles above a hops field near Au in der Hallertau, Germany, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Solar panels atop crops has been gaining traction in recent years as incentives and demand for clean energy skyrocket. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.
A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process. Solar panels atop crops has been gaining traction in recent years.