Glacierwatch
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We present accessible information about Europe's glaciers and how the climate crisis impacts them.
Greenland - Kalaallit Nunaat
Why its people, ice and water matter to us and our future
Greenland is often reduced to “the big ice sheet”, but it is far more than that. It is a living landscape where ice, ocean, people, and climate are deeply intertwined.
Why its people, ice and water matter to us and our future
Greenland is often reduced to “the big ice sheet”, but it is far more than that. It is a living landscape where ice, ocean, people, and climate are deeply intertwined.
January 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Greenland - Kalaallit Nunaat
Why its people, ice and water matter to us and our future
Greenland is often reduced to “the big ice sheet”, but it is far more than that. It is a living landscape where ice, ocean, people, and climate are deeply intertwined.
Why its people, ice and water matter to us and our future
Greenland is often reduced to “the big ice sheet”, but it is far more than that. It is a living landscape where ice, ocean, people, and climate are deeply intertwined.
🌱 Succession
Plants reclaim land where glaciers retreat
When a glacier retreats, it doesn’t just leave, it reveals. Beneath the ice lies raw mineral ground, once sculpted by centuries of ice movement.
Plants reclaim land where glaciers retreat
When a glacier retreats, it doesn’t just leave, it reveals. Beneath the ice lies raw mineral ground, once sculpted by centuries of ice movement.
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
🌱 Succession
Plants reclaim land where glaciers retreat
When a glacier retreats, it doesn’t just leave, it reveals. Beneath the ice lies raw mineral ground, once sculpted by centuries of ice movement.
Plants reclaim land where glaciers retreat
When a glacier retreats, it doesn’t just leave, it reveals. Beneath the ice lies raw mineral ground, once sculpted by centuries of ice movement.
Thank you!
Happy Holidays & all the best for 2026
2025 has been an amazing year filled with many firsts. Our founding event gave us the chance to turn Glacierwatch into a viable non-profit organization, fueled by the enthusiasm & energy of our members & all the support we received through the year.
Happy Holidays & all the best for 2026
2025 has been an amazing year filled with many firsts. Our founding event gave us the chance to turn Glacierwatch into a viable non-profit organization, fueled by the enthusiasm & energy of our members & all the support we received through the year.
December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you!
Happy Holidays & all the best for 2026
2025 has been an amazing year filled with many firsts. Our founding event gave us the chance to turn Glacierwatch into a viable non-profit organization, fueled by the enthusiasm & energy of our members & all the support we received through the year.
Happy Holidays & all the best for 2026
2025 has been an amazing year filled with many firsts. Our founding event gave us the chance to turn Glacierwatch into a viable non-profit organization, fueled by the enthusiasm & energy of our members & all the support we received through the year.
Life’s High Places are Losing Their Cool
Glaciers Shaped these Ecosystems — now they are vanishing
Mountains are more than majestic scenery. They are living, breathing ecosystems unlike anywhere else on Earth.
Glaciers Shaped these Ecosystems — now they are vanishing
Mountains are more than majestic scenery. They are living, breathing ecosystems unlike anywhere else on Earth.
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Life’s High Places are Losing Their Cool
Glaciers Shaped these Ecosystems — now they are vanishing
Mountains are more than majestic scenery. They are living, breathing ecosystems unlike anywhere else on Earth.
Glaciers Shaped these Ecosystems — now they are vanishing
Mountains are more than majestic scenery. They are living, breathing ecosystems unlike anywhere else on Earth.
A Year Between First Ice and Last Ice
Where do we stand at the end of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation?
As 2025 ends — and with it the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) — we take a moment to look back at the cryosphere’s year.
Where do we stand at the end of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation?
As 2025 ends — and with it the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) — we take a moment to look back at the cryosphere’s year.
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A Year Between First Ice and Last Ice
Where do we stand at the end of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation?
As 2025 ends — and with it the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) — we take a moment to look back at the cryosphere’s year.
Where do we stand at the end of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation?
As 2025 ends — and with it the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) — we take a moment to look back at the cryosphere’s year.
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Breiðamerkurjökull (SE Iceland)
1984 | 2025
6 km frontal retreat over 40 years for the 4th largest glacier in Iceland (900 km² in 2010), an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap! 🧊🔥
The LIA max is tangent to coastline 🌊
See this paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
GIF Author: Amir Hamedpour
1984 | 2025
6 km frontal retreat over 40 years for the 4th largest glacier in Iceland (900 km² in 2010), an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap! 🧊🔥
The LIA max is tangent to coastline 🌊
See this paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
GIF Author: Amir Hamedpour
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Breiðamerkurjökull (SE Iceland)
1984 | 2025
6 km frontal retreat over 40 years for the 4th largest glacier in Iceland (900 km² in 2010), an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap! 🧊🔥
The LIA max is tangent to coastline 🌊
See this paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
GIF Author: Amir Hamedpour
1984 | 2025
6 km frontal retreat over 40 years for the 4th largest glacier in Iceland (900 km² in 2010), an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap! 🧊🔥
The LIA max is tangent to coastline 🌊
See this paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
GIF Author: Amir Hamedpour
We Demand A Right to Ice
So that future generations can still benefit from the cryosphere tomorrow
Ice is not a luxury, it’s a life-support system. Glaciers store freshwater, feed rivers in dry seasons, stabilise mountain ecosystems and cultures, and help regulate climate.
So that future generations can still benefit from the cryosphere tomorrow
Ice is not a luxury, it’s a life-support system. Glaciers store freshwater, feed rivers in dry seasons, stabilise mountain ecosystems and cultures, and help regulate climate.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We Demand A Right to Ice
So that future generations can still benefit from the cryosphere tomorrow
Ice is not a luxury, it’s a life-support system. Glaciers store freshwater, feed rivers in dry seasons, stabilise mountain ecosystems and cultures, and help regulate climate.
So that future generations can still benefit from the cryosphere tomorrow
Ice is not a luxury, it’s a life-support system. Glaciers store freshwater, feed rivers in dry seasons, stabilise mountain ecosystems and cultures, and help regulate climate.
The Other Side of Black Friday
We can beat overconsumption by swapping, sharing and repairing
Black Friday isn’t just a sale day, it’s a concentrated burst of overconsumption. Sudden spikes in production, shipping & returns create extra carbon emissions, packaging waste and discarded goods.
We can beat overconsumption by swapping, sharing and repairing
Black Friday isn’t just a sale day, it’s a concentrated burst of overconsumption. Sudden spikes in production, shipping & returns create extra carbon emissions, packaging waste and discarded goods.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Other Side of Black Friday
We can beat overconsumption by swapping, sharing and repairing
Black Friday isn’t just a sale day, it’s a concentrated burst of overconsumption. Sudden spikes in production, shipping & returns create extra carbon emissions, packaging waste and discarded goods.
We can beat overconsumption by swapping, sharing and repairing
Black Friday isn’t just a sale day, it’s a concentrated burst of overconsumption. Sudden spikes in production, shipping & returns create extra carbon emissions, packaging waste and discarded goods.
We’re running out of time
From Berlin to Belém - we call for tough action!
There has been progress! We see renewable energy growing, cities, regions and entire countries aim to reach net-zero in the coming decades.
From Berlin to Belém - we call for tough action!
There has been progress! We see renewable energy growing, cities, regions and entire countries aim to reach net-zero in the coming decades.
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We’re running out of time
From Berlin to Belém - we call for tough action!
There has been progress! We see renewable energy growing, cities, regions and entire countries aim to reach net-zero in the coming decades.
From Berlin to Belém - we call for tough action!
There has been progress! We see renewable energy growing, cities, regions and entire countries aim to reach net-zero in the coming decades.
Polynyas: Open Water in a Frozen World
Out in the polar seas, where the ocean should be locked under thick ice, patches of open water sometimes appear. These are polynyas - natural openings in the sea ice, created when warm upwelling water or strong winds keep the surface from freezing over.
Out in the polar seas, where the ocean should be locked under thick ice, patches of open water sometimes appear. These are polynyas - natural openings in the sea ice, created when warm upwelling water or strong winds keep the surface from freezing over.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Polynyas: Open Water in a Frozen World
Out in the polar seas, where the ocean should be locked under thick ice, patches of open water sometimes appear. These are polynyas - natural openings in the sea ice, created when warm upwelling water or strong winds keep the surface from freezing over.
Out in the polar seas, where the ocean should be locked under thick ice, patches of open water sometimes appear. These are polynyas - natural openings in the sea ice, created when warm upwelling water or strong winds keep the surface from freezing over.
🌑 Dark Mode
🌅 Arctic Winter: When the Sun disappears
Above the Arctic Circle, the Sun can vanish for weeks or months. This “polar night” happens because of Earth’s tilt. Temperatures plunge, sea ice forms, and daylight fades to twilight or none. Life slows but doesn’t stop.
🌅 Arctic Winter: When the Sun disappears
Above the Arctic Circle, the Sun can vanish for weeks or months. This “polar night” happens because of Earth’s tilt. Temperatures plunge, sea ice forms, and daylight fades to twilight or none. Life slows but doesn’t stop.
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🌑 Dark Mode
🌅 Arctic Winter: When the Sun disappears
Above the Arctic Circle, the Sun can vanish for weeks or months. This “polar night” happens because of Earth’s tilt. Temperatures plunge, sea ice forms, and daylight fades to twilight or none. Life slows but doesn’t stop.
🌅 Arctic Winter: When the Sun disappears
Above the Arctic Circle, the Sun can vanish for weeks or months. This “polar night” happens because of Earth’s tilt. Temperatures plunge, sea ice forms, and daylight fades to twilight or none. Life slows but doesn’t stop.
Are we cooked?
The ice is thinning - but not our capacity to care, to act, to protect what’s left.
We’re reaching the first climate tipping-points. Glaciers are collapsing, ice-shelves are floating away, heatwaves and wildfires froth. The stakes have never been higher. Yes, the situation is dire.
The ice is thinning - but not our capacity to care, to act, to protect what’s left.
We’re reaching the first climate tipping-points. Glaciers are collapsing, ice-shelves are floating away, heatwaves and wildfires froth. The stakes have never been higher. Yes, the situation is dire.
October 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Are we cooked?
The ice is thinning - but not our capacity to care, to act, to protect what’s left.
We’re reaching the first climate tipping-points. Glaciers are collapsing, ice-shelves are floating away, heatwaves and wildfires froth. The stakes have never been higher. Yes, the situation is dire.
The ice is thinning - but not our capacity to care, to act, to protect what’s left.
We’re reaching the first climate tipping-points. Glaciers are collapsing, ice-shelves are floating away, heatwaves and wildfires froth. The stakes have never been higher. Yes, the situation is dire.
🐐 Between Rock and Vanishing Ice
🏔️ In Tyrol’s changing mountains, the Alpine ibex embodies both resilience and fragility.
🚠 High up in the rugged peaks of Tyrol, the Alpine ibex navigates a world in flux. Once buffered by permanent snow and slow-moving glaciers, their alpine home is changing fast.
🏔️ In Tyrol’s changing mountains, the Alpine ibex embodies both resilience and fragility.
🚠 High up in the rugged peaks of Tyrol, the Alpine ibex navigates a world in flux. Once buffered by permanent snow and slow-moving glaciers, their alpine home is changing fast.
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🐐 Between Rock and Vanishing Ice
🏔️ In Tyrol’s changing mountains, the Alpine ibex embodies both resilience and fragility.
🚠 High up in the rugged peaks of Tyrol, the Alpine ibex navigates a world in flux. Once buffered by permanent snow and slow-moving glaciers, their alpine home is changing fast.
🏔️ In Tyrol’s changing mountains, the Alpine ibex embodies both resilience and fragility.
🚠 High up in the rugged peaks of Tyrol, the Alpine ibex navigates a world in flux. Once buffered by permanent snow and slow-moving glaciers, their alpine home is changing fast.
⌛ The Last Chance Trap
🏔️ Glaciers are vanishing, overtourism can make it worse.
For decades, glaciers have been shrinking at alarming rates. Between 2000–2023, glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica lost ~5 % of their total volume. Central Europe was hit especially hard, losing ~39 %.
🏔️ Glaciers are vanishing, overtourism can make it worse.
For decades, glaciers have been shrinking at alarming rates. Between 2000–2023, glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica lost ~5 % of their total volume. Central Europe was hit especially hard, losing ~39 %.
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
⌛ The Last Chance Trap
🏔️ Glaciers are vanishing, overtourism can make it worse.
For decades, glaciers have been shrinking at alarming rates. Between 2000–2023, glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica lost ~5 % of their total volume. Central Europe was hit especially hard, losing ~39 %.
🏔️ Glaciers are vanishing, overtourism can make it worse.
For decades, glaciers have been shrinking at alarming rates. Between 2000–2023, glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica lost ~5 % of their total volume. Central Europe was hit especially hard, losing ~39 %.
Reposted by Glacierwatch
This week’s image highlights Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) in the Atlantic Ocean, monitored by satellites such as the Copernicus Sentinel-3 series.
SST's are a key #climate variable & global averages have risen by 0.5 °C since 1982.
Discover more at: bit.ly/3I9JjS0
@copernicusmarine.bsky.social
SST's are a key #climate variable & global averages have risen by 0.5 °C since 1982.
Discover more at: bit.ly/3I9JjS0
@copernicusmarine.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This week’s image highlights Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) in the Atlantic Ocean, monitored by satellites such as the Copernicus Sentinel-3 series.
SST's are a key #climate variable & global averages have risen by 0.5 °C since 1982.
Discover more at: bit.ly/3I9JjS0
@copernicusmarine.bsky.social
SST's are a key #climate variable & global averages have risen by 0.5 °C since 1982.
Discover more at: bit.ly/3I9JjS0
@copernicusmarine.bsky.social
🏞️ Glacier Rivers: These Lifelines of Ice support entire Regions
💧 Did you know that many of the world’s great rivers start as meltwater from glaciers?
From the Rhône in Switzerland to the Ganges in India, glacier rivers sustain people, animals, and entire ecosystems.
💧 Did you know that many of the world’s great rivers start as meltwater from glaciers?
From the Rhône in Switzerland to the Ganges in India, glacier rivers sustain people, animals, and entire ecosystems.
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🏞️ Glacier Rivers: These Lifelines of Ice support entire Regions
💧 Did you know that many of the world’s great rivers start as meltwater from glaciers?
From the Rhône in Switzerland to the Ganges in India, glacier rivers sustain people, animals, and entire ecosystems.
💧 Did you know that many of the world’s great rivers start as meltwater from glaciers?
From the Rhône in Switzerland to the Ganges in India, glacier rivers sustain people, animals, and entire ecosystems.
🏚️ Life on Thawing Ground
🧊 Permafrost in Peril
🌐 From Alaska and Canada to Greenland, the European Arctic and Siberia, thawing permafrost is cracking homes, shifting coastlines, and reshaping the places people hunt, fish, and gather. Permafrost holds roughly twice the carbon in the atmosphere.
🧊 Permafrost in Peril
🌐 From Alaska and Canada to Greenland, the European Arctic and Siberia, thawing permafrost is cracking homes, shifting coastlines, and reshaping the places people hunt, fish, and gather. Permafrost holds roughly twice the carbon in the atmosphere.
August 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🏚️ Life on Thawing Ground
🧊 Permafrost in Peril
🌐 From Alaska and Canada to Greenland, the European Arctic and Siberia, thawing permafrost is cracking homes, shifting coastlines, and reshaping the places people hunt, fish, and gather. Permafrost holds roughly twice the carbon in the atmosphere.
🧊 Permafrost in Peril
🌐 From Alaska and Canada to Greenland, the European Arctic and Siberia, thawing permafrost is cracking homes, shifting coastlines, and reshaping the places people hunt, fish, and gather. Permafrost holds roughly twice the carbon in the atmosphere.
Heat Protection Is a Human Right
😓 The right to stay cool is essential to our health & survival, yet it's often neglected. Glaciers—Earth’s natural air conditioners—make this right possible: they reflect sunlight, feed rivers during heatwaves, cool landscapes, and shield communities from extremes.
😓 The right to stay cool is essential to our health & survival, yet it's often neglected. Glaciers—Earth’s natural air conditioners—make this right possible: they reflect sunlight, feed rivers during heatwaves, cool landscapes, and shield communities from extremes.
August 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Heat Protection Is a Human Right
😓 The right to stay cool is essential to our health & survival, yet it's often neglected. Glaciers—Earth’s natural air conditioners—make this right possible: they reflect sunlight, feed rivers during heatwaves, cool landscapes, and shield communities from extremes.
😓 The right to stay cool is essential to our health & survival, yet it's often neglected. Glaciers—Earth’s natural air conditioners—make this right possible: they reflect sunlight, feed rivers during heatwaves, cool landscapes, and shield communities from extremes.
5️⃣ Explore Glaciers through our 5 Senses
🧊Glaciers speak to all our faculties
🧊Glaciers speak to all our faculties
August 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
5️⃣ Explore Glaciers through our 5 Senses
🧊Glaciers speak to all our faculties
🧊Glaciers speak to all our faculties
😢 Losing Tuvalu
🌺 Melting Glaciers and their effect on Pacific Islanders
😟 Imagine leaving your homeland — not for adventure, not for opportunity, but because the ocean is swallowing it.
🌺 Melting Glaciers and their effect on Pacific Islanders
😟 Imagine leaving your homeland — not for adventure, not for opportunity, but because the ocean is swallowing it.
August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
😢 Losing Tuvalu
🌺 Melting Glaciers and their effect on Pacific Islanders
😟 Imagine leaving your homeland — not for adventure, not for opportunity, but because the ocean is swallowing it.
🌺 Melting Glaciers and their effect on Pacific Islanders
😟 Imagine leaving your homeland — not for adventure, not for opportunity, but because the ocean is swallowing it.
🗓️ This was July - A Month of Climate Action
🌡️ The Climate Crisis doesn't stop in summer, and neither do we!
🔥 This July, we kicked off our summer campaign "Summer without Ice", joined Berlin Pride with a giant penguin, collaborated with activists, a members assembly and a workshop weekend.
🌡️ The Climate Crisis doesn't stop in summer, and neither do we!
🔥 This July, we kicked off our summer campaign "Summer without Ice", joined Berlin Pride with a giant penguin, collaborated with activists, a members assembly and a workshop weekend.
August 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🗓️ This was July - A Month of Climate Action
🌡️ The Climate Crisis doesn't stop in summer, and neither do we!
🔥 This July, we kicked off our summer campaign "Summer without Ice", joined Berlin Pride with a giant penguin, collaborated with activists, a members assembly and a workshop weekend.
🌡️ The Climate Crisis doesn't stop in summer, and neither do we!
🔥 This July, we kicked off our summer campaign "Summer without Ice", joined Berlin Pride with a giant penguin, collaborated with activists, a members assembly and a workshop weekend.
🐧 POV: You are a penguin at Pride
🌈 Your habitat is melting but you are too gay not to dance at #BerlinPride
🌈 Your habitat is melting but you are too gay not to dance at #BerlinPride
July 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🐧 POV: You are a penguin at Pride
🌈 Your habitat is melting but you are too gay not to dance at #BerlinPride
🌈 Your habitat is melting but you are too gay not to dance at #BerlinPride
🛑 Earth Overshoot Day - We Live in Overdraft!
From today until the end of the year, we will use more natural resources that earth can produce
From today until the end of the year, we will use more natural resources that earth can produce
July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🛑 Earth Overshoot Day - We Live in Overdraft!
From today until the end of the year, we will use more natural resources that earth can produce
From today until the end of the year, we will use more natural resources that earth can produce
⛔ No Pride with polluters!
🏳️🌈 Glacierwatch at Berlin Pride
🤔 Why is a climate group at Pride?
‼️ Because the fight for climate justice is the fight for queer liberation.
🏳️🌈 Glacierwatch at Berlin Pride
🤔 Why is a climate group at Pride?
‼️ Because the fight for climate justice is the fight for queer liberation.
July 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
⛔ No Pride with polluters!
🏳️🌈 Glacierwatch at Berlin Pride
🤔 Why is a climate group at Pride?
‼️ Because the fight for climate justice is the fight for queer liberation.
🏳️🌈 Glacierwatch at Berlin Pride
🤔 Why is a climate group at Pride?
‼️ Because the fight for climate justice is the fight for queer liberation.
📍Repparfjord: When profit buries tradition
In northern Norway, the Sámi community is fighting to protect Repparfjord (Riehppovuotna)—a vital reindeer migration area and part of their ancestral lands.
In northern Norway, the Sámi community is fighting to protect Repparfjord (Riehppovuotna)—a vital reindeer migration area and part of their ancestral lands.
July 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📍Repparfjord: When profit buries tradition
In northern Norway, the Sámi community is fighting to protect Repparfjord (Riehppovuotna)—a vital reindeer migration area and part of their ancestral lands.
In northern Norway, the Sámi community is fighting to protect Repparfjord (Riehppovuotna)—a vital reindeer migration area and part of their ancestral lands.