From 1850 to 1970, the team estimates net losses averaged about 30cm a year; between 1970 to 2000 they rose to 60-90cm a year; and since 2000 the average has been more than one metre a year. Last year the total net loss was the biggest ever, 1.3m, and only one glacier became larger. Worldwide, the vast majority of the planet’s 160,000 glaciers are receding, ‘at least’ as much as this, says Haeberli, probably more - a claim supported by evidence from around the world.

In the European Alps, a report last year by UNEP said glaciers declined, from a peak in the 1850s, by 35 per cent by 1970 and by 50 per cent by 2000, and lost 5-10 per cent in the mega-hot year of 2003 alone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/16/glaciers.climatechange

The French weather service are predicting a repeat of 2003 this summer.

Some more stuff about the Wilkins ice shelf

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cracking-up-the-ice-shelf-as-big-as-northern-ireland-800585.html

According to an article in le Monde Austrian glaciers shrank by an average of 22 meters in 2007. The biggest retreat since the heatwave summer of 2002. Glaciologues said it was due to mild weather.

The Weisssee Ferner in the south-west of Austrial in the Oetztal shrank a massif 96.5 meters with other glaciers in the south being hit hard. Those in the east faired better than average. Winter temperatures in 2007 were 3.2 above average with April 5.5 above average. The Austrian alpine club has been measuring the health of 93 glaciers for over a century.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-34873329@7-50,0.html