Eight of Sweden's 277 glaciers melted completely during 2024 and are now extinct due to global warming, the head of the Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden told AFP on Monday. The extinct glaciers "won't come back in our lifetime and not if global warming continues", she told AFP. "At the beginning of 2025, when we sat down to do our 2024 update to see when the glaciers were at their smallest, we couldn't find eight of the glaciers on the satellite images." They are the first glaciers to disappear entirely in Sweden, at least since high-resolution satellite images were introduced around the year 2000, she explained. "But there will be more warm summers and we have to be prepared for the fact that more (glaciers) will disappear," she said.