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#glaciers — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world | Bill McGuire
    By Bill McGuire

    In Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #NepalTibetflooddisaster #Climatecrisis #Flooding #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Landslides #Naturaldisasters #Volcanoes #Glaciers #Environment #Extremeweather #TheGuardian #BillMcGuire

  4. Nepal-Tibet flash flood: what we know so far
    By Guardian staff and agencies

    At least 165 dead and hundreds missing as huge torrent of mud and debris engulfs towns, villages and countryside along Nepal-Tibet border region

    theguardian.com/world/2026/aug

    #Nepal #Tibet #China #SouthandcentralAsia #Worldnews #Landslides #Flooding #Glaciers #Environment #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff #agencies

  5. 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.

    blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2026

  6. (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
    salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecologist?

    Reinos y ecorregiones different ecoregions of Chile, in song detailing the problems faced in terms of #climatechange.

    fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/reino?

    AntiFascist Black Metal Network
    linktr.ee/AntifascistBMNetwork

    #Chile #Ecologist #KimKelly #Metal

  7. 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.
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welttag_

    #Aktionstag