#glaciers

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollution-europe #environment #glacier #glaciers

Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6n9w0ypjwl9o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon #Switzerland #Swiss #environment #glaciers #water #WaterSupply

Alpine glaciers are no longer just melting. They’re actively decaying. This is a direct result of accelerating climate change from burning fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry makes massive profits at the expense of nature and our future ⚠️ Austria’s glaciers may disappear within a generation unless urgent climate action is taken >> https://act.gp/3RLI2EV It's time to #MakePollutersPay#ClimateCrisis #Heat #Glaciers

Glaciologist Matthias Huss shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn. #glaciers #globalwarming #ClimateChange

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/nepal-floods-highlight-growing-glacier-risks-in-warming-himalayas/ #Nepal #Himalaya #Himalayas #glaciers #environment #flood #floods #flooding

«…This collapse could be a result of global heating. “It’s not that much of a stretch to think, yes, we’re seeing one terrible ramification of human-caused climate change,” he says.…» ".…could be.…" and ".…not that much of a stretch.…"??? Could we even possibly make this accusation any more feebly? Was anyone predicting glaciers would melt before climate change? They were formerly the kind of long-term fixed thing no one expected to change all of a sudden. Remember the phrase "moving at a glacial pace"?? That didn't arise because glaciers were prone to visible change in a short time. But then climate scientists did their job and carefully worked out a lot of detailed consequences of physics, predicting that glaciers would be melting more and more everywhere, and that floods and mud slides and ultimately drought would be the next thing we'd see. It doesn't take a complex analysis to attribute this to climate change. It takes a conspiracy of denialists, and the people that work for them, to suppress credence about the science if you want to tamp down anything so painfully obvious. This is not a case where something happened and people said "what a surprise. we'll have to figure out the cause", like when a building burns down that no one expected to. This is a building that had a blaze burning in the front yard already and someone was positioning a large fan to assure the flames went toward the building in a known-to-be-dangerous way and then the building burned down and people are saying "hmm, we'll have to see what the cause might have been". We need to stop reporting these events in isolation and report them as part of a coherent whole. Climate scientists' "a priori" predictions need their due. Predictions were copiously made in advance that the climate dice are not random but loaded, that bad things were about to happen. This is not a time for an "a posteriori" analysis where we pretend we thought the dice were fair and that sometimes bad things just happen randomly. «Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.…» Source: IMDB #climate #ClimateDenial #nepal #mudslides #glaciers #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #meltinghttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2586497-a-glacier-collapse-is-most-likely-cause-of-the-nepal-disaster/

Seeing the beautiful and still impressive Norwegian glaciers, it's sad to know they're rapidly retreating. One sign said "If we manage to keep global warming below 1.5°C, around 25-30% of the glaciers can be preserved." Video taken at Suphellebreen, part of Jostedalsbreen. #globalwarming #ClimateChange #glaciers

Disappearing frontier Kangerlussuaq, Greenland A team of researchers from the Cryosphere Ecology Group at Charles University in Prague is spending six weeks camped in front of a glacier to analyse the cycle of carbon and organic content emerging in its meltwater. The Greenland ice sheet has been melting at an accelerated rate in recent decades. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images #photography#Greenland#glaciers

A robot swarm is on a mission to map #Greenland’s perilous #icesheets The fleet of drones, subs and sensors will map ice melt to forecast #climate #tippingpoints Data from expedition funded by #UK’s secretive new inventions agency, will feed into climate models. Idea is to forecast when #ice melt will tip climate-regulating ocean currents into shutdown, and try to develop early warning system that would let humanity know when #glaciers are changing https://www.sciencenews.org/article/robot-mission-map-greenland-ice-climate https://archive.ph/OaxnC

Swiss glaciers facing drastic loss from heat wave: Expert https://phys.org/news/2026-06-swiss-glaciers-drastic-loss-expert.html #Switzerland #Swiss #environment #glaciers #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260409-argentine-mps-approve-milei-backed-bill-allow-mining-glaciers #Argentina is going to end up with no #glaciers if #Milei & his #supporters have their way. The glaciers are under a big enough threat from #climatechange, without THIS, as well! It will be absolutely devastating for the #environment in that #country, & its #people will suffer badly as a result. Do they want to be #flooded out of their #homes? Do they want to see their #crops & #cattle destroyed? Milei has to be STOPPED!

Today: "Jumpers - Un salto tra gli animali", il bel film Pixar che ci ricorda di quella sfida chiamata natura Ve lo ricordate quando il più angoscioso dei problemi sembrava essere il surriscaldamento globale? Ghiacciai che si sciolgono, innalzamento dei mari, orsi polari affamati? Con spasmo tragicomico verrebbe quasi da dire ‘bei tempi’ a ripensarci oggi, che la minaccia collettiva è invece quella di... "Jumpers - A Leap of Faith," the wonderful Pixar film that reminds us of that challenge called nature. Do you remember when the most distressing problem seemed to be global warming? Glaciers melting, rising sea levels, starving polar bears? With a tragicomic spasm, one would almost want to say ‘good times’ when thinking about it today, with the collective threat now being… #Pixar #Glaciershttps://www.today.it/vision/cinema/jumpers-un-salto-tra-gli-animali-recensione.html