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Despite an exceptionally snow-filled winter, Swiss glaciers have lost 2.5 per cent of their volume this year, according to a report Tuesday which dubbed 2018 "a year of extremes". This year's record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of "a fifth of (the glaciers') volume over the past decade", according to the annual study on the state of the glaciers, published by the Swiss Academies of Science. And this despite the piles and piles of snow that fell during the 2017-18 winter season, following three consecutive years of little snow in the Alpine country.