Claridenfirn 2006 | 2025 Claridenfirn is a special glacier in several ways! 🤩 Features different accumulation basins that do not lead into one single, clearly established glacier snout 🧊 Features the longest record of glacier mass balance worldwide (111 yr!) 📈 📷 @matthias-huss.bsky.social

Want to acquire such a priceless piece of our natural heritage? 🥰 This is a subfossil spruce from late Roman period that comes from Bossons Glacier in Chamonix! 🌲⌛ What makes it special? 💚 - Spruce is pretty rare in moraines - Precisely dated to early summer 253 CE! wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

Südtirol glaciers on 15th Sept. (looking south)! 😍 Upper center: Forni Gl. (used to be largest italian gl.) In front: Mt Cevedale and Cevedale Gl. Center R: Königspitze and Sulden Gl. (debris covered) Foreground R: Vertainspitze and Lasa Gl. 📷 @russellb1ggs.bsky.social

Eiskapelle is... gone! ❄️🧊🔥 As of 20th Sept., the last arch of the lowest lying (~900 m asl) permanent firn ice deposit in the Alpine region collapsed too! Such total disappearance never happened in recent history... 😱 Source: @jojoski2.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jojo...

Imagine Tré-la-Tête Gacier in the 'Swinging Thirties' when first glaciological work began there! 🧊⏳⛏️ So moving to see these beautifully dressed early glaciologists! 🎩 No Gore-Tex, but gender balance! 🤍⚖️ 📷 Claudius Bernard

Tré-la-Tête Glacier 1990s | 2025 Demise of the most 'secret' (fact already emphasised by Whymper in 1909!) large glacier of the Mont Blanc massif! 🏔️ 🧊 The icefall no longer exists and most of the left tributaries have broken off! 🔥 📷 Cesare Balbis and Lauriane Miara

Seil de la Baque Glacier The last glacier in Haute Garonne will disappear within next 5 years! ✝️ It has lost 1 ha during the last two years: 4.5 to 3.5 ha (as of late 2025)! 🔥😲😱 actu.fr/occitanie/ba...

At the tip of this subfossil larch fragment, an other dendro-date constraining Holocene glacier variations in the Alps! 🥰🌲💍 #labwork #BeautifulSample

Tour Glacier this morning! 🥰🧊 The contrasts of autumn are the best! 😍 Chardonnet and Aiguille Verte overlook snow-free ice bodies 🔥 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social

4°C at Observatoire Vallot (4365 m asl) on Mont Blanc on the 19th Sept. ! 🔥😱 This was unbelievable in full summer few decades ago, now this occurred regularly outside summer! 📈🥵 Data: IGE meteo station via X. Cailhol

Yesterday, Sept. max. temp. have been broken by a LARGE margin at several high elevation stations in the Alps! 📈😲 Zermatt (1620 m) has broken its record by +2.3 °C! 😱 Summer as we knew it during the 20th century now runs from mid May to mid October🥵 www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/portrait/met...

Monte Perdido Glacier 2006 | 2025 We are witnessing the final years of our southern icy friends! 😭 resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... These glaciers withstood the Roman and medieval optima by the way! 💪 tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/... 📷 Credits shown on pics

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To learn more: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏

2025 Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice sheet has been published by GEUS 🧊📈 If you are under 30 yo, you have never known a positive year! 🔥 www.geus.dk/om-geus/orga...

Saint Sorlin Glacier 1999 | 2025 Collapse of one of benchmark glacier for mass balance in western Alps! 😱 Set to disappear within less than 20 years! 🔥 📷 Sources 1999 & 2022: hal.science/hal-04122994... 2014: H. Mansoux 2025: Y. Gong 🙏 @bobopopo67

Absolutely crazy level of heat at high elevation in the Alps! 😲🔥🌡️ Zermatt (1620 m asl) almost the hottest city over last 24 hours, and hotter than many towns in the plain! 😱 Via @myweather_ch

Arsine Glacier 18th Sept. 2025 Great overview of this wonderful site we spent so many time studying! 🥰 The landform bottom L is a moraine complex deposited after a large RA onto the glacier ~10.7 ka Check our freshly published TCN chronology of Arsine moraine sequence here! 👇 📷 @Meteofranz/IG 1/

CRAZY rock avalanche reaching infrastructure between Göschenen et Andermatt (UR) this morning! 😱 Look the size of those boulders that stop on the roof of the protective structure (at 1315 m asl)! 😲 Source: www.blick.ch/fr/suisse/on...

Very interesting conference organized by @unil on "Glaciers: a cultural heritage in the context of climate change" 🧊⏳ www.unil.ch/events/fr/17... Held in Sion on 6th Nov. It will feature diverse talks by glaciologists, historians, art and tourism specialists 🥰 Not to be missed!

Saint Sorlin Glacier 2014 | 2025 What have we lost in ONE DECADE...?! 🧊😱 This was a benchmark glacier for mass balance in the French Alps... now set to disappear before 2050! 🔥 hal.science/hal-04122994... 📷 H. Mansoux and Y. Gong

Piz Bernina and famous Biancograt two days ago! 😍 📷 @ABettmeralp

First rays this morning on the easternmost 4,000er, Piz Bernina! 🏔️😍 Shot from Stelvio Pass, Piz Palü (3899 m) to the left 📷 @ABettmeralp

14,000 yr-old in situ stumps sampled today! 🥰 Wood that old cannot be found in the Alps, but in the Prealps! In Southern Alps, some torrential systems feature Lateglacial Pinus sylvestris outcrops! So BEAUTIFUL! (Rooted stumps+paleosol+alluvial sediments) 📷 L. Francon PI: C. Miramont (both IMBE)

Cookie of the Day! 😍🌲💍 Huge cembran pine (>50 cm diam.) that grew in Tignes (at 2253 m asl) at a time this place was (almost) pristine! ⛰️ ⛷️ It was found in 1990 during the construction of a ski track when the digger fell into a pocket of peat! ⛏️ Lifespan: 320+ yrs between -2234 and -1914! ⏳

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com

What would we do without the fierce desire to lift our heads? Continuously, magnetised. Last rays on Les Drus 🏔️⛅️ June '25

"In the first quarter of the 21st century weird things were happening in the mountains... people used to pack ice for money!" 🧊💲 Diavolezza (2 960 m), 15th Sept. 2025 (Piz Bernina, 4048 m, at background) 📷 @ABettmeralp

From top of Monte Perdido (3355 m) this morning! 😍 Rejoice in having been part of a generation (the last) that was able to look at this face and see ice! 🧊 📷 @lorenzopirineo

Boum Glacier 2000 | 2023 ✝️ Pyrenean glaciers will be gone within 10 yrs! 🔥 Boum passed away in 2023 and a moving tribute was paid to him last Sunday! france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ha... 'Funny' to see headline from 2020 saying it will be gone by 2040! 😱 www.ladepeche.fr/2020/09/13/e...

Glacier subfossil wood cookie of the day! 🥰🌲💍 Argentière Glacier lateral moraine Oct. 2024! 🧊 Don't miss a unique opportunity to acquire one of those exceptional samples, by helping science to find the last ones before it is too late...! ⌛🔥 wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

Monte Perdido 1965 | 2025 How moving! 🤍 Jaime, standing on the same stone as his grandfather 60 years later, on top of Cilindro de Marboré (3325 m)! 🏔️⏳🔥 Monte Perdido (3355 m) at the background! In the 20th c, there were glaciers on the W face of Monte Perdido! 📷 Joaquín and Jaime Romeo 🙏

Aletsch Glacier has lost 4.6 m of ice thickness at Konkordiaplatz (2800 m asl) during this summer 2025! 🧊😱 - It was 6 m during the absolute 2022 record year - 4.7 m in 2023 - 4 m in 2024 All years are now terrible... the new normal in the Alps! 🔥📈 Data by @matthias-huss.bsky.social @glamos.ch 1/

Glacier Blanc from Refuge Cézanne (1874 m, Ecrins) 1904 | 2025 The largest glacier in the Écrins massif will soon no longer be visible from Pré de Mme Carle! 🧊🔥📈 📷 G. Flusin and M. Grenes 🙏

La Meije (3983 m) two weeks ago capped with beautiful lenticularis! 😍 Check our papers for TCN dating of Holocene moraines all around the Queen! ⛰️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📷 Tristan Vandenberghe

Impressive geomorphological process at work here! 😍 A huge block of till from the left lateral moraine of this glacier slid down its inner flank. Drone shot during access to Jannu East north face (Nepal) 📷 Thibaut Marot 1/

Marmolada Glacier 2025 | 2015 | 1916 Everything is happening far too quickly... 🔥 We are witnessing the final years of glaciers on mountains below 3,500 metres! 📷Credits: www.unipd.it/news/campagn...

Glacier larch subfossil wood! 🥰 Would you like to acquire one of these exceptional samples while supporting research? 🧊🌲💍 This way, please! 🙏 wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

Plateau Rosa (3500 m) and Klein Matterhorn (3883 m) 1960 | 2015 | 2025 The last decade has been simply terrible in terms of ice loss at very high elevations! 🧊🔥 📷 Mario Aimar / IG

Ak-Shyirak massif (max. 5000 m, Kyrgyzstan) one week ago..🏔️🧊 Not the slightest accumulation zone! 🔥 As if global warming weren't causing glaciers to disappear fast enough, mining is doing it even faster! ⛏️ This gold mine today worth ~20% of KGZ’s GDP! 💰 📷🛰️ Pleiades Glacier Inventory 1/

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To learn more: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To learn more: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏

Around 20,000 m3 broke off at ~2,800 m asl. in the St. Annafirn area last Sunday and fell onto the 'glacier'! 🔥 No damage to the ski resort. Employees at the Andermatt-Sedrun ski arena had already observed increased rockfalls. www.bote.ch/nachrichten/...

Collapse of a serac below Gobba di Rollin (3 898 m,Val d'Ayas) last sunday! Via @meteovalledaosta

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To learn more: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏

On 31st Aug., a major clean-up operation took place at the Ossoue glacier to restore some of its natural beauty for its final years! 🧊🚮✝️ Organized by 'Moraine' asso. this made it possible to collect 185 kg of waste, including valuable heritage items! 📷 P.N. Pyrénées 1/

Discovery of a high altitude occupation site (2765 m asl!) from the 1st century BCE in Val d'Anniviers! 🏔️🏠 A period during which the Valais region was gradually being integrated into the Roman empire. zenodo.org/records/1529...

Agua Negra Glacier (San Juan, ARG) ❄️🏔️ This small glacier (1 km², 4800-5200 m asl) is surveyed since 2013 for mass balance by IANIGLA glaciologists 🧊 During this period the glacier has lost around 9 m w.e.! 📈🔥 📸 P. Pitte (2014), H. Gargantini (2024) www.glaciaresargentinos.gob.ar/monitoreo/ag...

Agonising Ossoue Glacier from Pico central (3235 m) on 6th Sept.! 🧊🔥 Not a single snow patch, only bare ice 😱 🎥 @puertatras

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Alsek Glacier (Alaska) 1984 | 2025 Nunataks become islands in this world... 🧊🔥 earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15476... Via @mauri-pelto.bsky.social