Glacierwatch
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We present accessible information about Europe's glaciers and how the climate crisis impacts them.
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 %.
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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
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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.
⁉️Why Care about Glaciers?
Why should you care about glaciers - even if you’re nowhere near one? Glaciers might seem distant, but they help regulate the whole planet’s temperature. They reflect sunlight, store freshwater, and keep sea levels in check.
Why should you care about glaciers - even if you’re nowhere near one? Glaciers might seem distant, but they help regulate the whole planet’s temperature. They reflect sunlight, store freshwater, and keep sea levels in check.
July 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
⁉️Why Care about Glaciers?
Why should you care about glaciers - even if you’re nowhere near one? Glaciers might seem distant, but they help regulate the whole planet’s temperature. They reflect sunlight, store freshwater, and keep sea levels in check.
Why should you care about glaciers - even if you’re nowhere near one? Glaciers might seem distant, but they help regulate the whole planet’s temperature. They reflect sunlight, store freshwater, and keep sea levels in check.
💧Melting Point
🇨🇭Switzerland lost 900 glaciers already -
Nuriel Delmee wants us to remember them
🇨🇭Switzerland lost 900 glaciers already -
Nuriel Delmee wants us to remember them
July 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
💧Melting Point
🇨🇭Switzerland lost 900 glaciers already -
Nuriel Delmee wants us to remember them
🇨🇭Switzerland lost 900 glaciers already -
Nuriel Delmee wants us to remember them
Wir brauchen: Eis, Eis, Baby!
Eis hilft uns, cool zu bleiben – ob als Gelato im Becher oder gefroren in den Bergen. Doch unsere Gletscher, das Kühlsystem der Erde, schmelzen rasant durch die Klimakrise. Mit Sommer ohne Eis fragen wir: Was bleibt, wenn das Eis verschwindet?
Eis hilft uns, cool zu bleiben – ob als Gelato im Becher oder gefroren in den Bergen. Doch unsere Gletscher, das Kühlsystem der Erde, schmelzen rasant durch die Klimakrise. Mit Sommer ohne Eis fragen wir: Was bleibt, wenn das Eis verschwindet?
July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Wir brauchen: Eis, Eis, Baby!
Eis hilft uns, cool zu bleiben – ob als Gelato im Becher oder gefroren in den Bergen. Doch unsere Gletscher, das Kühlsystem der Erde, schmelzen rasant durch die Klimakrise. Mit Sommer ohne Eis fragen wir: Was bleibt, wenn das Eis verschwindet?
Eis hilft uns, cool zu bleiben – ob als Gelato im Becher oder gefroren in den Bergen. Doch unsere Gletscher, das Kühlsystem der Erde, schmelzen rasant durch die Klimakrise. Mit Sommer ohne Eis fragen wir: Was bleibt, wenn das Eis verschwindet?
🧊 What’s Happening to Summer Sea Ice?
Every summer, Arctic sea ice melts — but not like this. Since satellite records began in 1979, the Arctic has lost around 75% of its summer sea ice volume and about 40% of its extent (NSIDC, 2023).
Every summer, Arctic sea ice melts — but not like this. Since satellite records began in 1979, the Arctic has lost around 75% of its summer sea ice volume and about 40% of its extent (NSIDC, 2023).
June 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🧊 What’s Happening to Summer Sea Ice?
Every summer, Arctic sea ice melts — but not like this. Since satellite records began in 1979, the Arctic has lost around 75% of its summer sea ice volume and about 40% of its extent (NSIDC, 2023).
Every summer, Arctic sea ice melts — but not like this. Since satellite records began in 1979, the Arctic has lost around 75% of its summer sea ice volume and about 40% of its extent (NSIDC, 2023).
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The appearance of Bossons Glacier these days before the most violent June heatwave in history and highest 0°C isotherm this week end... 🥵
What will this glacier look like at the end of this hellish summer?! 😱
📷 Pascal Tournaire
What will this glacier look like at the end of this hellish summer?! 😱
📷 Pascal Tournaire
June 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The appearance of Bossons Glacier these days before the most violent June heatwave in history and highest 0°C isotherm this week end... 🥵
What will this glacier look like at the end of this hellish summer?! 😱
📷 Pascal Tournaire
What will this glacier look like at the end of this hellish summer?! 😱
📷 Pascal Tournaire
🧊 When Ice Gets Dirty
How Glaciers are losing their cool
🔬 They might look like specks of dirt — but dust, soot & ash settling on glaciers are having an outsized impact on the cryosphere. These particles, often invisible to the eye, are dramatically altering how glaciers absorb sunlight and melt.
How Glaciers are losing their cool
🔬 They might look like specks of dirt — but dust, soot & ash settling on glaciers are having an outsized impact on the cryosphere. These particles, often invisible to the eye, are dramatically altering how glaciers absorb sunlight and melt.
June 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🧊 When Ice Gets Dirty
How Glaciers are losing their cool
🔬 They might look like specks of dirt — but dust, soot & ash settling on glaciers are having an outsized impact on the cryosphere. These particles, often invisible to the eye, are dramatically altering how glaciers absorb sunlight and melt.
How Glaciers are losing their cool
🔬 They might look like specks of dirt — but dust, soot & ash settling on glaciers are having an outsized impact on the cryosphere. These particles, often invisible to the eye, are dramatically altering how glaciers absorb sunlight and melt.
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The holes in Bossons Glacier tongue are enlarging! 😱
This means continuous serac fall from the ice cliff, that accumulate on a large fan downslope 🧊
So much change at this iconic place over last 3 years! 😭
This means continuous serac fall from the ice cliff, that accumulate on a large fan downslope 🧊
So much change at this iconic place over last 3 years! 😭
June 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The holes in Bossons Glacier tongue are enlarging! 😱
This means continuous serac fall from the ice cliff, that accumulate on a large fan downslope 🧊
So much change at this iconic place over last 3 years! 😭
This means continuous serac fall from the ice cliff, that accumulate on a large fan downslope 🧊
So much change at this iconic place over last 3 years! 😭
🌊 From the Glacier to the Ocean
🏔️ How glacier melt affects sea pollution
🧊 When we talk about ocean pollution, we often picture plastic bottles or oil spills. But there's another source—one we rarely think about: Melting glaciers and sea ice are releasing decades-old pollution into the ocean.
🏔️ How glacier melt affects sea pollution
🧊 When we talk about ocean pollution, we often picture plastic bottles or oil spills. But there's another source—one we rarely think about: Melting glaciers and sea ice are releasing decades-old pollution into the ocean.
June 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌊 From the Glacier to the Ocean
🏔️ How glacier melt affects sea pollution
🧊 When we talk about ocean pollution, we often picture plastic bottles or oil spills. But there's another source—one we rarely think about: Melting glaciers and sea ice are releasing decades-old pollution into the ocean.
🏔️ How glacier melt affects sea pollution
🧊 When we talk about ocean pollution, we often picture plastic bottles or oil spills. But there's another source—one we rarely think about: Melting glaciers and sea ice are releasing decades-old pollution into the ocean.