Season’s greetings from the MRI Coordination Office 🌄❄️ Grateful for a year of collaboration and care for our changing mountains. Wishing you rest, connection, and renewed energy for the paths ahead. #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter #MountainResearch

🏔️ The BeyondIceFutures project has been awarded MRI Synthesis Funding to bring together interdisciplinary expertise on recently #DeglaciatedLandscapes. The project will identify knowledge gaps & develop visions for positive futures beyond ice. 🔗 bit.ly/beyondicefut... #OurChangingMountains

🌍🌄 #OurChangingMountains are under pressure, & the MRI research community is responding. From #glacier tipping points in the South Caucasus to major cross-border #adaptation programs, our December newsletter highlights some key community insights & achievements. 📖 Read more ➡️ buff.ly/xlCqw8Q

❄️🌍 Rapid #GlacierLoss is reshaping water, food & livelihoods across Central Asia, the South Caucasus & Pakistan. 🚜 #GlaciersToFarms supports #Adaptation in the face of escalating risks. Proud to see contributions from Maria Shahgedanova, lead of the MRI Mountain Observatories WG. 📖 bit.ly/4aoKh8z

New MRI co-authored policy brief: South Caucasus #glaciers hitting critical tipping point. ❄️ Dramatic #GlacierLoss over the past two decades. 💧 Rising #WaterInsecurity during summer #droughts. 🚨 Increasing #MountainHazards like #floods & #avalanches. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/CaucasusPoli...

Happy #InternationalMountainDay! ⛰️💛 From snow-covered peaks to glacier-fed valleys, #OurChangingMountains connect & inspire us. Around the globe, the #MountainResearch community is working together to celebrate, understand, & care for these incredible places. We are proud to be a part of it!

❄️ Who speaks for #glaciers? As glaciers retreat, legal frameworks struggle to protect these vital landscapes. This GlacierHub article explores how lawyers are navigating environmental law to represent glaciers & nature. 📖 Full story: buff.ly/4dtymPs #EnvironmentalLaw #RightsOfNature

📣 Abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2026 is still open! We invite inter- & transdisciplinary contributions for our session on 'Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.' ⏰ Deadline 15 Jan 26 🔗 bit.ly/4njx183 #OurChangingMountains

🌎 “There’s very few glaciers that people have lived with like they’ve lived with the Mendenhall” The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 shows the Mendenhall Glacier is retreating faster than expected, with significant ecological, cultural, & economic impacts for Juneau & beyond. 📖 bit.ly/4otcv5j

🎥🏔️ At the #Banff Mountain Film Festival, MRI SLC member Ignacio Palomo brought the human dimensions of #GlacierLoss into focus, & shared insights from The Voices of Glaciers — a book that captures stories of #resilience, memory, & hope in #OurChangingMountains. 📚 Read more: bit.ly/VoicesofGlac...

🏔️🤔 What makes governance work in #OurChangingMountains? 📝 A new MRI #MountainGovernance Working Group global survey uncovers where progress soars & where it stalls, from #SpatialPlanning and #LandRights to the availability of Geo/GIS data. 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/MRIMountainG... #MountainsMatter

🔍🌄 Looking for #ResearchFunding to strengthen monitoring, data, or information in #OurChangingMountains? 💡 The @geomountains.bsky.social Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is now open! 👇 Priority regions: the Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, & Hindu Kush Himalaya. ⏰ Deadline 20 Feb 2026

🌍 New research finds #mountain #ClimateChange is accelerating faster than predicted, altering snow, rainfall, & ecosystems – with significant consequences for billions of people. 🌄💧 Stemming from an MRI-funded workshop, the research calls for urgent monitoring & #ClimateAction: buff.ly/2LTqhSu

📰 Our November newsletter is live! It’s packed with updates from across the global #MountainResearch community — from a major ERC-funded project in East Africa to new research on accelerating mountain #ClimateChange. Discover what’s happening across #OurChangingMountains: bit.ly/MRINewslette... ⛰️🌍✨

🚨 Deadline approaching! APN 2025 Call for Proposals open for CRRP & CAPaBLE programmes. Funding starts Oct 2026. Early career researchers encouraged! ⏰ Summary Proposals due 30 Nov 🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/funding-oppo... #ResearchFunding #OurChangingMountains #AsiaPacific #EarlyCareer

🌄 Glacier retreat in Peru is changing mountain water – & human health. Join the NexGLAS project’s closing event, where researchers will share new findings on acid rock drainage in the Negro River Catchment in Peru. 🗓 Fri 21 Nov ⏰ 9–10:30am Peru / 15–16:30 CET 📍 Zoom: tinyurl.com/4uzsb5xd

🌄 MRI Chair Jörg Balsiger is among the guest editors of this MRD focus issue, which explores innovation in mountains as multidimensional & context-specific. 📖🌿 Articles examine how social, institutional, tech, & scientific innovations can advance – or hinder – sustainable mountain development. 👇

📖🌍 New global report highlights why disaster-resilient infrastructure in #OurChangingMountains is essential for protecting people, #ecosystems, & downstream communities. 🔗 tinyurl.com/c7kkszma ⛰️🛣️ Engineering + #NatureBasedSolutions + Indigenous knowledge = a more #resilient future. #ClimateAction

Pavan 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2024) look at mammalian diversity in the eastern Andean slopes, a biodiversity hotspot with high conservation priority, with high endemicity and new species of mammals revealed through DNA barcoding. Read the full study here: buff.ly/GLwWblD #Didelphimorphia #Peru #Rodentia #Yungas

📣✍ Apply now! @belmontforum.bsky.social’s Advancing Leadership Program is open for applications – a 1-year transdisciplinary fellowship for researcher–societal actor “TD Pairs.” ⏰ Deadline 24 Nov 2025 🌍 Open worldwide 🔗 bit.ly/48lkSek #FundingOpportunity #Transdisciplinary #OurChangingMountains

🗨️ "For us to be taken seriously, the flood has to be huge or the entire village has to be carried away." ⛰️ Til, a remote village on the Tibetan border, was already seeing population decline. Now, recent #NaturalDisasters have many questioning their future there: bit.ly/4o5lcT7 #OurChangingMountains

🌿📢 Expert reviewers needed! IPBES has opened the external review of its assessment on monitoring biodiversity & nature’s contributions to people. 🐛 Review period: 5 Nov 2025–7 Jan 2026 🦋 Register: bit.ly/4pBchKH #Biodiversity #IPBES #SciencePolicy #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

🌄 Attending #COP30 in #Belém? Don't miss this key discussion on how communities in #OurChangingMountains are building #resilience 💪, creating #watersecurity 💧, & shaping global #adaptation policy 🌎. 🗓️ 15 Nov 2025 ⏰ 10:00–10:45 (UTC -03:00) 📍 COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion & Online 🔗 bit.ly/4hWnCSI

🚨 Call for papers! 🍃 Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is seeking contributions for an Article Collection on #TransdisciplinaryResearch for #TransformativeChange. ⏰ Deadline 31 Dec 2026 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4p7UgDe #OurChangingMountains

📣 Don't forget to submit your abstract for our #EGU26 session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives. ⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 ‼️ IMPORTANT ➡️ To apply for financial support, submit by 1 Dec 2025. 🔗 bit.ly/4njx183 #OurChangingMountains

Does a circular economy lend itself as a sustainable way forward for high mountain regions? In a Delphi survey among stakeholders in Valle d’Aosta, Italy, Domenico Tassone and Dario Musolino found it would—but transitioning requires cultural change and targeted policies: doi.org/10.1659/mrd....

#OurChangingMountains: Where #biodiversity & #ClimateAction meet. 🏔️ Join this #COP30 side event to explore #adaptation solutions & governance models from mountain regions worldwide. 📅 14 November 2025 🕖 18:30 – 20:00 (UTC -03:00) 📍 Side Event Room 7, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP30 🔗 bit.ly/4qYAQCM

Very excited to be working with some excellent partners across Europe and Africa to strengthen our understanding on the importance of Mountains for navigating future climate, biodiversity and sustainability challenges @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

⛰️ Big #MountainResearch news! 🎉AFRI-CAN, a project exploring #EastAfrican mountain social ecological dynamics, has been awarded an #ERCSynergyGrant! 🌍 Headed by MRI colleague @rob-marchant.bsky.social, it will explore how mountain ecosystems & communities can thrive amid change. 🔗 bit.ly/AFRI-CAN

🚀 New from GEO Mountains: Inventory of In Situ Observational Infrastructure — v3 is here! Now with 100k+ entries, improved network links, & mountain range attribution based on GMBA v2. Discover who’s measuring what, where, & how across #OurChangingMountains. 🌍🏔️ 🔗 Explore: bit.ly/InSituInvent...

📢 Call for abstracts! Join our World Biodiversity Forum #WBF2026 session on 'Social Innovation & Collective Action in Socio-Ecological Systems for #TransformativeChange in #Biodiversity Futures in Mountain Regions.' ⏰ Deadline 18 November 🔗 More here: bit.ly/MRIatWBF2026 #OurChangingMountains

✨💻 Check out the new GEO Mountains website! ➡️ geomountains.org 🌏 The refreshed platform provides a more modern, intuitive, & functional experience – making it easier for users to explore activities, access resources, & connect with the growing GEO Mountains community. #OurChangingMountains

📢 Vacancy announcements: ICIMOD is actively hiring for three roles within our Strategic Results, Partnerships and Business Development Unit. 💼Senior MEL Specialist (Project Position) 💼Senior Project Management Specialist (Project Position) 💼Consultant for Project Design and Proposal Development

📣 Last chance to register for the @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA! We’re proud to be part of it, supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, & highland–lowland linkages with up to CHF 20,000 per project. ⏰ Deadline 7 Nov 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04 #OurChangingMountains

🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our October newsletter. ⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains. 🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...

📢 Final call! Join our coordinated efforts to elevate #OurChangingMountains in the #IPCC #AR7. We welcome all disciplines & areas of expertise. Register your interest now, & help ensure mountains are accurately represented in this key #GlobalAssessment. 🔗 buff.ly/C0S5WNF ⏰ Deadline: 31.10.25

📣 Call for abstracts! 🏔️ Join us at #EGU26 (3–8 May, Vienna & online) for our session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives. ⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 🤔 Find out more: bit.ly/4njx183 #GlobalChange #OurChangingMountains #CallForAbstracts

📣 Reichen Sie Ihren Beitrag zum Schweizer #Landschaftskongress 2026 bis zum 30. November ein! 🌄 Alle Landschaftsthemen und -disziplinen sind willkommen, das Thema «Berg und Tal – Stadt und Land» bildet dabei den Kern. 👇 🔗 landschaftskongress.ch #OurChangingMountains

❄️ Glaciers are cooling the air around them – for now. 🧊 A new study published in Nature Climate Change shows this “self-cooling” will peak by the 2030s before melting speeds up. 🌡️ "Every bit of a degree counts." 🔗 bit.ly/4oA1b8e #IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025 #OurChangingMountains #VanishingGlaciers

Exciting #JobOpportunity for early-career #climate researchers! 🌍 The #WCRP is offering two Postdoc positions through its Regional Information for Society Project: 1️⃣ Climate Services & Stakeholder Engagement 2️⃣ Robust Climate Info for Adaptation ⏰ Apply by 10 Nov. 🔗 bit.ly/4n68oeP

🌍 The MRI has joined @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA! We’re supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, and highland–lowland linkages – with funding up to CHF 20,000 per project. ⏰ Register by 7 Nov 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04 #OurChangingMountains #FundingOpportunity

📢Communicate your #ResearchProject on Social Media! Use it to inform about your research without spending much money. The European Research Executive Agency published a document containing some valuable tips. 🔗https://t1p.de/ncivk #HorizonEU #ResearchInnovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

ICYMI: We are looking for topic editors to join the team! Help shape knowledge for sustainable mountain futures and be part of a unique, not-for-profit, community-supported scientific journal aiming for societal impact! Find out more and apply by 24 Oct: t.ly/PAzBF #AcademicSky #MountainsMatter

💬 "With their clear, cold waters, mountain lakes are exceptionally sensitive to changes in temperature & nutrients.” 🌅 As the #climate warms & nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in lakes in #OurChangingMountains will likely experience seasonal changes, suggests new research. 🔗 bit.ly/4n1qYEV

Call for abstracts! ❄️ 'Cold Altitudes: Knowledge, Imagination, & Experiences of Mountain Ice' 🏔️ ⏰ Deadline: 31 Oct 2025 📍 Univ. of Fribourg, CH. 🔗 bit.ly/42FmkVR Topics include histories of #mountain #glaciology, Indigenous knowledge practices, mountain ice in art, & more. #OurChangingMountains

🔍 Research suggests restoring ancestral lands & traditional food systems could tackle malnutrition among Indigenous families in Attappadi, Kerala 🌱 This work highlights the critical role of food sovereignty & ecological restoration in supporting resilient, healthy communities. 🔗 buff.ly/2euMsuD

📣 ICIMOD is hiring a #Sustainable Settlement Specialist to help shape greener, more resilient #mountain towns across the #HKH region. 🌿 Work at the intersection of science, policy, & practice to support #SustainableUrbanisation in #OurChangingMountains. 🗓️ Hurry! Apply by 12 Oct. 🔗 bit.ly/3VYGK8A

🌡️🌍 Want to contribute to the next #IPCC reports? 💻 Join this Oct 15 webinar (1PM EST / 7PM CEST) to learn how to be an Expert Reviewer! Hosted by @agu.org & presented by USAA-IPCC. 🔗 More here: mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/webin... #IPCCAR7 #ClimateReport #OurChangingMountains

⛰️ Last month, the mountain research community came together in Innsbruck for #IMC2025 – & the MRI was there in force. 💡🌍 From #ClimateModels to community voices, our network led & contributed to sessions on data, futures, & the science-policy interface. 🔗 Full recap:

📣 Final call! You have until ⏰ 17 October to submit your proposals for @belmontforum.bsky.social Collaborative Research Action on ‘Vulnerability & #Resilience Management for Socio-Environmental Systems in Exposed Territories.’ 🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/ydJ3tQa #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter