#glaciers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #glaciers, aggregated by home.social.
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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.
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Ice remembers. 🧊 Glaciers and polar ice hold centuries of the planet's history, and they're changing fast. From orbit, satellites track the melt: ice loss, sea-level rise, a climate written in white. 🛰️
#RemoteSensing #Cryosphere #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Satellites #Geography
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Today, Megan and I drove to Höfn and then drove gravel roads to Hoffellsjökull glacier and Heinabergslón glacial lagoon.
#Travel #2026IcelandTrip #Iceland #Auroras #SeyðisfjörðurIceland #Glaciers #Höfn #Hoffellsjökull #Heinabergslón
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Though the scale and mechanisms may vary, Japan is not immune to the risk of catastrophic mudslides hitting mountainous communities like the one that hit Nepal last month, experts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/09/09/climate-change/japan-avalanche-risk-nepal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #nepal #glaciers #floods #landslides #rain
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The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world | Bill McGuire
By Bill McGuireIn Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered
#NepalTibetflooddisaster #Climatecrisis #Flooding #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Landslides #Naturaldisasters #Volcanoes #Glaciers #Environment #Extremeweather #TheGuardian #BillMcGuire
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The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world | Bill McGuire https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/nepal-tibet-flood-alaska-himalayas-andes-greenland-alps #NepaltibetFloodDisaster #ClimateCrisis #Flooding #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Landslides #NaturalDisasters #Volcanoes #Glaciers #Environment #ExtremeWeather
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Nepal-Tibet flash flood: what we know so far
By Guardian staff and agenciesAt least 165 dead and hundreds missing as huge torrent of mud and debris engulfs towns, villages and countryside along Nepal-Tibet border region
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/nepal-tibet-flash-floods-what-we-know-so-far-flooding
#Nepal #Tibet #China #SouthandcentralAsia #Worldnews #Landslides #Flooding #Glaciers #Environment #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff #agencies
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Iceberg turns over off Ilulissat, Greenland
#Arctic #CoastalEnvironment #Glaciers
▶️ 1 new picture from EU Space https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceberg_turns_over_off_Ilulissat%2C_Greenland_%28Copernicus_2026-08-06%29.webp
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Alaska’s 2025 mega tsunami highlights risk to cruise lines as glaciers retreat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/alaska-mega-tsunami-climate-change-glacier #UsNews #Glaciers #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Alaska #Tsunamis #ExtremeWeather
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As #climate emergencies intensify, how are melting #glaciers impacting societies & lifestyles? Gurmath Lotos (University of Delhi) & Chandrika Das (Ambedkar University Delhi) examine impact, conservation & advocacy in #Ladakh & the Trans-Himalayas.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2026/05/04/climate-change-in-hamlets-in-the-trans-himalaya/
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(Interview)
Ecologist's harsh Chilean #blackmetal is a tribute to the melting #glaciers of #Patagonia. "Many black metal bands talk about nature but very few about its disappearance..."
Salvo: #antifascist #heavymetal newsletter
https://salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecologist-interview-2026/?Reinos y ecorregiones different ecoregions of Chile, in song detailing the problems faced in terms of #climatechange.
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/reinos-y-ecorregiones?
AntiFascist Black Metal Network
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Der #Welttag der #Gletscher (englisch #World Day for #Glaciers) ist der 21. März. Der Welttag wurde auf dem 36. #UN-#Wassertreffen der #VereintenNationen im Jahr 2022 beschlossen...
Der Welttag der Gletscher soll auf die Bedeutung von Gletschern aufmerksam machen sowie auf die #Auswirkungen des #Gletscherschwunds auf #Menschen und #Ökosysteme.
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New Coasts Emerging From The Retreat Of Northern Hemisphere Marine-Terminating Glaciers In The Twenty-First Century
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02282-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #climatechange #glaciers #glacial #melting #retreating #ctyosphere #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #deglaciation #coast #coastal #geomorphology # geomorphometry #proglacial #coastline #geology #NorthernHemisphere #Greenland #paraglacial #sediment #sedimentation #dynamic #retreating #ecosystems #Arctic #islands #new #climate #rock #permafrost #geodiversity #delta #moraine #beach #juvenile #snow #ice #calving -
NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉
We were able to detect the Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine up to 3,300 m a.s.l. in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
New short note in #Hystrix (w/ #ChiaraPaniccia & @Eliag from https://bsky.app/profile/euracalpenv.bsky.social )
📄 https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00760-2024
#PygmyShrew #Shrews #SmallMammals #Hystrix #Südtirol #AltoAdige #EuropeanAlps #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol #GLORIA #Mountains #MountainPeaks #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Monitoring #AlpSoil_Lab #Glaciers #OetztalAlps #Sesvenna