Science-based monitoring, forecasting & early warning systems are powerful tools to meet challenges that glacier melt poses. But we must act together.
🗨️Watch WMO SG Celeste Saulo’s message to mark the closing of #Glaciers2025, looking ahead to #WorldGlacierDay & #WorldWaterDay.
At today’s #WorldGlaciersDay event hosted by Tajikistan in Geneva, SG Celeste Saulo emphasized that speeding up action to build resilience amid melting glaciers requires:
Stronger transboundary cooperation
Enhanced observations & monitoring
Long-term financing & strategic partnerships
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"This is our shared responsibility, nobody can do it alone."
@wmo-global.bsky.social SG Celeste Saulo underscores that the legacy of #IYGP #Glaciers2025 must turn into stronger global commitments to preserve #Glaciers, through cooperation, strengthened observations & investments.
Underscoring the importance of building on the outcomes of #Glaciers2025 Conference in Dushanbe, H.E. Amb. Sharaf Sheralizoda of #Tajikistan underscores the need for strengthened collaboration on water governance and a strong response to water crisis.
For information about the wider programme, including sessions highlighting the vital links between the cryosphere, water, and gender equality, and for info on how to register (for free) for in-person or remote attendance, visit: www.un-glaciers.org/en/world-day... (3/3)
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Celebration of the World Glacier day in Paris next week. On 19 March IACS will have the side event 'Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future'. www.un-glaciers.org/en/articles/.... Remote participants may join Zoom webinar link:
unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🏔❄️ #Glaciers2025
Thank you to everyone who joined our #glacier session at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting! ❄️🌄
From melting ice to human stories, it was inspiring to explore glaciers in all their complexity. Missed it? Catch up here: buff.ly/2hxfk8h
#Glaciers2025 #IYGP2025 #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter
Glaciers don't erode simply where ice moves fastest.
A survey found precipitation and elevation or length are major factors. Most glaciers remove less than 3mm of rock per year, totalling ~23 gigatonnes globally.
#Glaciers2025 #IYGP2025
La moitié des glaciers mondiaux risquent de disparaître d'ici 2100.
Découvrez ce que sont réellement les glaciers et pourquoi ils sont importants pour les populations, pour la planète ➡️ buff.ly/eDSj3tX
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In 2024, every glaciated region on Earth reported losses due to melt for the 3rd year in a row, highlighting the alarming trend of accelerating annual loss.
Help us amplify the #Glaciers2025 messages and call for urgent climate action.
https://www.un-glaciers.org/en
2025 is the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
Authors call for urgent, collaborative action to preserve glaciers, highlighting their scientific, cultural and spiritual importance, urging integration of traditional knowledge into climate efforts. #Glaciers2025 #IYGP2025
🏔️ Glaciers lost 450 gigatons of water in 2024.
This is enough to form a block of ice 7 km tall, 7 km wide, and 7 km deep or to fill 180 million Olympic swimming pools.
Help us amplify #Glaciers2025: we need urgent climate action now.
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L'Année int. de la préservation des glaciers nous incite à protéger le rôle crucial des glaciers pour soutenir la vie des générations futures.
Les jeunes peuvent montrer la voie à suivre. Leur voix et leurs idées novatrices comptent.
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People think that glaciers will recover when it snows, but there is a point when they stop accumulating and recovering. In some areas, we passed that point generations ago.
Listen to Youth Conversations: Beyond the Forecast 🎧 https://bit.ly/3KMuJRj
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⛰️Leeds academics Duncan Quincey & Lauren Rawlins, and Leeds alum, Kenton Cool, explore how we can minimise the pernicious impact of melting glaciers, through international research.
🎧Listen to the podcast episode here: listen.podmasters.uk/HTFCleanAir?...
#Glaciers2025 #GlobalResearch #UKinNepal
In parts of Alaska, water is replacing ice. The Yakutat, Alsek, and Grand Plateau glaciers have retreated dramatically, creating some of the most rapid lake growth in the U.S. this century.
Together, the three lakes more than doubled in size over 40 years.
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Otto Simonett, Director of @zoinet.org, reflects on the glacier of his youth, a World Cup football match, fear and loss.
One perspective in an Adaptation at Altitude series for #Glaciers2025.
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❄️ Glaciers are cooling the air around them – for now.
🧊 A new study published in Nature Climate Change shows this “self-cooling” will peak by the 2030s before melting speeds up.
🌡️ "Every bit of a degree counts."
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#IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025 #OurChangingMountains #VanishingGlaciers
This footage from USGS shows the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska forming a natural ice dam. As meltwater builds up and suddenly releases, it triggers a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF).
The cryosphere is changing, and with it, the risks we face.
#Glaciers2025
🏔️Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers on Earth.
This "before and after" is a stark reminder that glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change, and around the world, they are retreating due to rising temperatures.
#Glaciers2025
🏔️ The Alps are warming faster than the global average & Swiss #glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015.
❄️ Melting extends to the highest peaks; this summer, the zero degree line exceeded 5,000 metres several times.
#OurChangingMountains #IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025
L'Année int. de la préservation des glaciers nous incite à protéger le rôle crucial des glaciers pour soutenir la vie des générations futures.
Les jeunes peuvent montrer la voie à suivre. Leur voix et leurs idées novatrices comptent.
🔗 buff.ly/gDQZZKJ
#Glaciers2025
Antarctica is losing about 136 billion tons of ice mass per year, and Greenland is losing 267 billion tons.
As glaciers melt, our fresh water supplies diminish, threatening communities worldwide.
We must amplify #Glaciers2025. The time to act is now.
What you are seeing: a before-and-after of the Berg Lake’s drainage changing as Steller Glacier retreats, forcing the water to find new drainage routes - increasing the risk of sudden and destructive glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
This is why #Glaciers2025 matters.
⛰️ The Perito Moreno Glacier's retreat could be a delayed reaction to climate shifts from more than a decade ago.
The dramatic change in a glacier historically seen as stable underscores why scientists must keep monitoring even the most resilient natural systems. #Glaciers2025 #IYGP2025
❄️🏔️ La disparition des glaciers remodèle le tourisme de montagne.
Les glaciers rétrécissent, rendant leur accès plus difficile et risqué, ce qui pousse les gens à choisir d'autres itinéraires alpins ou un accès par avion.
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In the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), often called the ‘Third Pole’, towering glaciers, forests, and vast rangelands sustain biodiversity, feed Asia’s great rivers, and support the livelihoods of mountain communities.
#IYGP #Glaciers2025 #IYRP2026 #MountainPrize
#BACO2025: Great science, good networking and very friendly atmosphere! We were warmly welcomed here in Busan, Republic of Korea, by the local organizers. We arranged a special session marking the 🏔❄️ #Glaciers2025 and had a plenary meeting & ECR lunch. IACS also arranged its annual meeting.
🗻🧊 Why do #GlaciersMatter?
📸 Enter the International Mountain Day 2025 photo contest and help highlight the vital role glaciers play in sustaining food, water and livelihoods — in mountains and beyond.
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#MountainsMatter #Glaciers2025
