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  1. Karsten Schmidt @[email protected] ·

    After He's Gone.

    (Chosen for #TextureTuesday, but also as addendum for the recent #WorldDayOfGlaciers...)

    "He" is referring here to the Gepatschferner (masculine in German), one of the once largest glaciers in the central Alps (and still Austria's 2nd largest), but so severely reduced by now and for at least 10 years the fastest shrinking glacier in Austria, losing up to ~120 meters (360 feet) per year!

    Walking in terrain like this is an incredibly moving experience, even if visually stunning!

    #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Glacier #Alps #Mountains #Rocks

    #texturetuesday #worlddayofglaciers #landscapephotography #naturephotography #glacier #alps
  2. Rob Larter @[email protected] ·

    As today is UN World Day for Glaciers I'm taking the opportunity to post this reminder that the main reason nobody can confidently predict how much sea-level will rise over the rest of this century and beyond is "deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes" (IPPC AR6). The biggest uncertainty is how quickly ice will be lost from regions where the ice sheet bed is below sea level. The most immediate risk comes from the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and #ThwaitesGlacier in particular. Thwaites has been losing ice at an accelerating rate over the past three decades. It is the fastest changing large glacier in #Antarctica and, because its bed gets deeper towards the interior of the ice sheet, it is the most vulnerable.
    Here is a link to a thread I posted previously summarising some key findings from research conducted by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.
    fediscience.org/@PoLaRobs/1154
    #WorldDayOfGlaciers
    #Glacier
    #sealevel

    #thwaitesglacier #antarctica #worlddayofglaciers #glacier #sealevel
  3. Karsten Schmidt @[email protected] ·

    Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps:

    Interactive visualization of changes in glacier length
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11319156

    One of the birth places of modern glaciology (from yesterday)
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11626127

    Morteratsch
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11611089
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11494877
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11450728
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11353695

    Langtauferer
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11516261
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11550895

    Fellaria
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11528062

    Documentary about the 2025 glacier collapse & destruction of Blatten:
    mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11530667

    More info about the awareness day:
    un-glaciers.org/en/world-day-g

    #WorldDayOfGlaciers #Glacier #Alps #Mountains #ClimateChange #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

    #worlddayofglaciers #glacier #alps #mountains #climatechange #landscapephotography