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Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
🏔️ 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.
🔗 bit.ly/4ivRNPc
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Newly published work by an international science team says the natural cooling mechanism of mountain glaciers will break down by mid-century. A @uafairbanks scientist is on the team, which analyzed from 62 glaciers. #climate gi.alaska.edu/news/mountain-…
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
In 2024, the Greenland Ice Sheet recorded its third smallest ice loss since 2001.
Since 1972, Greenland has lost about 6,776 km³ of its ice sheets.
Find out more about the European #StateOfClimate here:
bit.ly/3Gbw023
#ESOTC2024 @CopernicusEU
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Hemos caminado por la cresta norte-sur de los Pirineos. A un lado, en Francia, el Midi y el valle de Ossau, Parque Nacional. Al otro lado, en España-Aragón, en apariencia nada que envidiar, pero la Canal Roya y el Anayet no tienen ningún tipo de protección legal de su naturaleza.
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Glaciers have lost 9,000 gigatons of ice since 1975.
@WMO Scientific Officer Sulagna Mishra calls for rapid 🌐emissions cuts, better monitoring & strong political commitments, all of which will be be formalized in the High-Level Glaciers Preservation conference’s declaration⤵️
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
From the Arctic to the Alps, the Rockies to Mount Everest—plastic pollution has reached even the highest peaks of our planet.
But solutions exist – let's come together to #BeatPlasticPollution.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
worldenvironmentday.global/
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Melting glaciers are triggering new and potentially deadly hazards.
❗Flash floods
❗Glacial lake outbursts
❗Seasonal water disruption
These risks now threaten water security for millions of people.
bit.ly/3EQt2j8
#Glaciers2025
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
🐘❄️ Greenland’s Elephant Foot Glacier is a stunning piedmont glacier with a 5.4 km-wide circular ice fan flowing into Romer Lake.
Seen here in a #CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 #ImageOfTheDay from 16 July 2024, this data helps monitor glacier change worldwide. 🛰
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
🗻 The Mountain Youth Hub of the Mountain Partnership will be hosting a virtual side event at the 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum this week!
➡️Register here; fao.zoom.us/webinar/register…
✨️#MountainsMatter #ECOSOC2025 🌍 #Youth2030 🌱 #MountainYouthMatter
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Venezuela has become the second country in the world to lose all of its glaciers.
This stark reality comes from the latest #StateOfClimate report on Latin America and the Caribbean.
📘 Read the full report: bit.ly/4iOKZxj
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Today marks the FIRST-EVER #WorldGlaciersDay!
Glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change and are retreating globally due to rising temperatures. Now is the time for BOLD #ClimateAction.
🔗un-glaciers.org/en
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Gray water: it’s black & white. Every year ships in Antarctica dump millions of liters of untreated gray water full of microplastics, heavy metals & toxins. With ship activity growing & no global restrictions, it’s time for Antarctic Treaty Parties to act.
asoc.org/ice-archive/gray-wa…
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Mountain snow is disappearing in the high-altitude region surrounding the Himalayas due to warmer and drier conditions.
The shift is visible in these #Landsat 9 images from January 2022 and 2025.
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
In 1962 Humble, now ExxonMobil, boasted about being able to melt #glaciers at a rate of 7 million tons/day.
We are now losing glaciers at a rate 100 times greater.
Since 2000, glaciers have lost 5% of their total volume, with regional losses up to 39% in Central Europe #IYGP2025
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
❄️The Secret Life of Glaciers | #WorldWaterDay💧
Glaciers store 70% of Earth’s fresh water, yet they are shrinking fast. With rising temperatures, their retreat is reshaping our planet’s water supply.
What’s the future of our frozen giants?
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
The year 2024 is the hottest year on record, according to WMO, ending a decade of unprecedented heat, destabilizing the water cycle and causing glaciers to melt fasting than ever.
#WaterAction = #ClimateAction
#WorldWaterDay
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Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
#MountEtna is Europe’s largest and most active volcano. #Landsat images acquired on February 12th and 13th highlight the recent activity of Sicily's snow-capped #Stratovolcano. Learn more here: ow.ly/I3sM50V0uc0
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
(3 of 5) #Arctic #SeaIce coverage was below avg. by 330,000 sq. miles — ranking 2nd-lowest on record.
bit.ly/3Qd7FdP
@NOAANCEI #StateOfClimate
ALT 3-January-2025-Arctic-Sea-Ice-Extent-Map
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
Glaciers are key indicators of the impacts of the climate crisis and are increasingly retreating due to rising temperatures.
Latest data and more from @WMO & @UNESCO: un-glaciers.org/en/homepage
#Glaciers2025
Mountain Wilderness International retweeted
These #Sentinel2 images of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, acquired on 26 January 2024 and 26 January 2025, illustrate the lack of snowfall received this year in comparison to the last.
Learn more:
copernicus.eu/en/media/image…
