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Europe / Switzerland · Environment

Alpine glaciers melting rapidly, affecting water supplies

Rank
Ran
32h
Updated
35h ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
5

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elDiario.es Spain · Spanish 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Čeština (2) · Italiano (1) · O‘zbek (1) · Українська (1) · +3 languages

Read at elDiario.es

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 33 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: elDiario.es, 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: Ukraine, with Unian.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 09:34 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Kun.uz.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

33 of 33 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 83%

First movers

  1. elDiario.es 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC
  2. Unian +4h 3m
  3. iDNES +4h 16m
  4. TGCOM24 +12h 4m
  5. Kun.uz +29h 29m

Last to join

  1. Seznam Zprávy 4 Oct, 14:15 UTC
  2. Kun.uz 4 Oct, 10:59 UTC
  3. TGCOM24 3 Oct, 17:35 UTC
  4. iDNES 3 Oct, 09:47 UTC
  5. Unian 3 Oct, 09:34 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Swiss glaciers lose 20 percent of volume in five years, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 77 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Uzbekistan. Europe 4: Czechia, Italy, Spain, Ukraine. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
Timeline
Earliest article elDiario.es, 3 Oct 2026, 05:30 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 05:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Switzerland. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Swiss glaciers lose 20 percent of volume in five years. Continued by Gletser Swiss Kehilangan Hampir 20 Persen Massa Es dalam Lima Tahun. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
3 Oct 2026 247 3.10 4 4 4 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 05:50 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 14:15 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Kun.uz Uzbekistan 4 Oct, 10:59 UTC
    Shveysariya Alp togʻlarida asriy muzliklar shitob bilan erimoqda.

Europe 5 outlets

  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 4 Oct, 14:15 UTC
    Extrémní tání. Alpské ledovce už se nedají zachránit, říká glaciolog
  • TGCOM24 Italy 3 Oct, 17:35 UTC
    Ghiacciai svizzeri, perso quasi il 20% in cinque anni: le Alpi si sgretolano
  • iDNES Czechia 3 Oct, 09:47 UTC
    Švýcarské ledovce mizí před očima. Za rok roztálo přes pět procent jejich objemu
  • Unian Ukraine 3 Oct, 09:34 UTC
    В Альпах тануть льодовики, і це вже починає позначатися на кількості води в річках
  • elDiario.es Spain 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC
    Los glaciares de Suiza pierden casi una quinta parte de su hielo en solo cinco años
Read at elDiario.es

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