The planet has lost 4,300+ gigatonnes of glacier ice since 2011. That’s enough to build a pyramid 3× taller than Everest. 📖 Dive into the full Nature interactive to find out more about how the world have differed due to climate change for the last 15 years: www.nature.com/immersive/s4...

An Unusual Arctic Spring: When Snow Fails to Come in Svalbard. Bare ground replaces white landscapes, snowmobiles stop, wildlife struggles, and daily life shifts in unexpected ways. A snowless Arctic spring isn’t just unusual. It’s a glimpse of how quickly our climate is changing.

🌍 Partner spotlight: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Our collaboration with IIT Bombay brings world-class expertise in engineering and environmental modelling. Led by Prof. Raaj Ramsankaran, the team models the Indus River Basin to assess how climate impacts water availability across regions

🌸🐣 Happy Easter from LIQUIDICE! 🐣🌸 Like the cryosphere in transition ❄️where ice melts, shifts, and reshapes the world around it, spring reminds us that change is powerful, natural, and full of opportunity. Here’s to fresh starts, bold ideas, and new energy this season. 💧✨

🌍 Meet Us Series 🇮🇳 We’re working with 3 associated partners from India. The first up: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (Bhopal) A leading science & research institution contributing to: ❄️ Glacier-climate modelling ❄️ Debris cover effect in CISSEMBEL ❄️ Himalaya research

🐻❄️ LIQUIDICE helped bring real Arctic science to life in Piccolo Orso children opera From day one, we: • Translated climate science into story • Co-developed the libretto • Created all teacher materials 🌍ice melting, black carbon, Arctic communities & overtourism Art+science @cnr-isp.bsky.social

🌍 LIQUIDICE – Meet Us Series 🇸🇪 Meet our Swedish partner: University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Their work in biology & environmental science helps us understand life and human-nature interactions. ❄️ In LIQUIDICE: 👩‍🔬 Mats Björkman focuses on permafrost research

Today we celebrated World Glacier Day, World Water Day, and Meteorology Day together with teachers and students from secondary schools across Europe. Watch the recording of the special online lesson by Warren Raymund Lee Cairns from the Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR in Italy. youtu.be/B2Qj_3pF4GM

❄️ Glaciers hold ~70% of Earth’s freshwater. And they’re disappearing fast. 🌊Arctic sea ice ↓ ~40% since 1979. 🧊Ice sheets melting faster each year. This is a water crisis in slow motion. On the occasion of the World Day for Glaciers find out more about Hans Glacier. #WorldDayForGlaciers #Climate

The final Anniversary video 🧊✨ In WP3 we’re pushing the boundaries of Earth System Modelling. Our goal? Integrating dynamic ice sheet components to refine global climate projections. As WP3 lead, I’m thrilled to share our progress. Science is a marathon, and we’re just getting started! 🏃💨

#MeetUs! 🌍 Meet Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research team: • Uta Krens-Kanzow • Jan Streffing contributing to modelling in WP3 of #LIQUIDICE. AWI focuses on Global Earth System Modelling and cryosphere coupling, studying Atmosphere–Ice Sheet–Ocean interactions.

Are you teaching in a secondary school? Would you like your students to get the most up-to-date knowledge first hand from scientsts to help them understand the climate change and what we can do as we face a warmer ice free future? Join our online lesson on 23 March at 10 am. Link below.

#MeetUs series is back! We highlight CMCC - an Italian research foundation, advancing climate science to support adaptation and contributing: ❄️ in WP3 with land ice in Earth system modelling 🏔️ in WP4 by assessing climate risks for tourism in Monte Rosa 🤝 in WP5 by strengthening polar networks

🎉 1 year of WP4 Climate Impact & Adaptation Over the past year we have: • Conducted a scoping visit to Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) • Participated in conferences • Engaged with stakeholders and rights holders Qujanaq to everyone who shared their knowledge with us. #ClimateAdaptation

LIQUIDICE was mentioned during the opening address of the Arctic Circle Rome Forum by Anna Maria Bernini, Minister of University and Research in Italy. Bartek Luks presented on strengthening interdisciplinary research collaboration from the Svalbard Snow Network to LIQUIDICE. ❄️🌍 #ArcticCircle

WP1 Anniversary update from LIQUIDICE: • gathering information on 210 datasets, out of which 73% were previously unavailable • New field campaigns completed • New instruments deployed • Data processed and shared for cross-project use Watch video with Andreas Peter Alhstron from GEUS 🚀 #OpenScience

Final day of the LIQUIDICE General Assembly in Venice 🇮🇹 Reporting ✔️ Exploitation activities ✔️ Cross-WP discussions ✔️ Strong alignment, vivid discussions, and hands-on activities. A productive and forward-looking closing with great alignment across partners. Excited for the next phase! 🚀

LIQUIDICE General Assembly in beautiful building of Palazzo Loredan in Venice 🇮🇹 30 participants in person + several online for a full day of: • Project updates • Publication strategy • WP discussions • Societal impact session Strong collaboration and great progress across the consortium 💧❄️

“Glacier melt should worry all of us, not just scientists.” In an interview with Polish Press Agency, Bartek Luks, LIQUIDICE coordinator, explains how glaciers and snow cover regulate Earth’s climate, store freshwater, and support ecosystems. Interview (in Polish): youtu.be/J9hWPUdPwKY?...

Work Package 2 Earth Observation: 7 partners, 4 tasks, 1 year: → ML + camera data for high-res snow monitoring → ICESat-2 SWE reference data over Svalbard → Albedo records for Greenland & Svalbard extended back to 1986 → Glacier & ice-sheet mass balance time series reaching into the 20th century

✨ International Day of Women and Girls in Science ✨🔬 Since 2016, February marks this UN-proclaimed day promoting participation of women in STEM. At LIQUIDICE, 34% of our staff are women (25 in total) contributing across research, and innovation. 🎓 To mark the day, we hosted an online lesson!

🚨 New LIQUIDICE data deliverable now available! It presents collection of 210 published, available online and unpublished data sets of: 👉 Surface mass balance 👉 Snow cover 👉 Meteorology 👉 Catchment discharge 👉 Subsurface state Covers sites in the Alps, Norway, Greenland, Svalbard & Ladakh.

One year of LIQUIDICE Diss&Comm 💧 From social media and online lessons to public events and a children’s opera 🎭 Watch our short video summarizing our outreach activities. #Anniversary

LIQUIDICE at #SnowHydro ❄️ Our coordinator Bartek Luks presented work on snow depth and melt dynamics in Svalbard: TLS + in situ data + satellite imagery + A-Melt modeling to study snowpack evolution in the Fuglebekken catchment SnowHydro 2026 with rich scientific program: 🔗 snowhydro.unirioja.es

Any teachers here? 📢 Online lesson for secondary schools – International Day of Women and Girls in Science On 11 February, 10:00 join us for LIQUIDICE: Unfrozen – Who Gets the Water When the Melt Begins? The lesson explores glaciers, snow, and why frozen water matters for our future water security

Welcome to LIQUIDICE, Asta Mønsted! 🎉 Asta joins as a postdoc in WP4, researching the green transition, melting glaciers & climate adaptation in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). Based at the Arctic House, University of Copenhagen. We’re thrilled to have you on board, Asta! ❄️🌍

🎉 LIQUIDICE 1st anniversary! A year of hard work, numerous meetings, and fruitful scientific discussions and networking activities, whitch brought: ✔️ 8 deliverables ✔️ 4 scientific papers ✔️ presentation on conferences 🎥 Hear more from our Project Coordinator: 👉 www.youtube.com/shorts/TVPe-...

❄️🐻 Little Bear and the Ice Mountain - children's opera debuts after two years of work! A powerful opera where fairy tale meets climate science. Proud to see CNR ISP and the LIQUIDICE project as scientific partners in this artistic bridge to environmental awareness 🌍🎶

❄️ Arctic fieldwork prep – level: parking lot ❄️ LIQUIDICE WP5 leader spotted in the parking lot "preparing" for the fieldwork in Svalbard Training hard for snow measurements in Svalbard by mastering the most dangerous: 👉 icy asphalt 👉 random pedestrians 👉 judgmental coworkers Arctic, we’re coming!

✨Do you know what day it is today? ❄️It’s #WorldSnowDay! 🌍#Snow plays a crucial role in Earth’s #energy #balance, #water #resources and #permafrost stability. ☃️Our project leader will explain why snow matters more than ever in a changing #climate️.

New paper relevant to and supported by #LIQUIDICE published in Journal of Glaciology. The study by University of Oslo looks at advanced data assimilation of albedo and snow depth for surface mass balance simulations for Kongsvegen glacier in Svalbard.

❄️ Dr Bartłomiej Luks, Project Coordinator of LIQUIDICE was a guest in the latest episode of the #LeadersInHorizon #podcast series, produced by #NCBR. 🎧 bit.ly/4qGDN9O

New paper published in Remote Sensing on glacier albedo modelling! The study develops elevation-dependent glacier albedo models using machine learning and multi-algorithm satellite validation in Svalbard, advancing tools for Arctic glacier monitoring. Full paper: www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18...

On 12 Dec 2025 at CNR HQ, scientists and civil society gathered to celebrate the International Year of Glacier Preservation and the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science. Andrea Spolaor (CNR-ISP) & Silvia Terzago (CNR-ISAC) presented the LIQUIDICE poster, sharing project insights.

🌍 🇬🇧 Dr. Bartłomiej Luks, #LIQUIDICE project coordinator, took part in the III NAWA Internationalisation Congress, discussing #science #diplomacy and the internationalisation of #research in Poland. 🔬🇵🇱

🌍 Abstract submission is now open for the session CR6.8 at the #EGU2026 📌To reduce uncertainties in future projections, we need stronger integration of observational datasets with numerical models across scales. 👉 We encourage submissions from #HorizonEurope projects 🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/58025

💦 Building on 2024 appeal, we issue this renewed call as the signs of cryosphere destabilisation have only grown clearer and more alarming. ❄️ Open Letter "An S.O.S. from the Cryosphere to World Leaders at COP30" 👉 Sign here: forms.gle/Z6UkhSCijF6t... - Only institutional signatures

🌍 From 29–32 Oct 2025, #LIQUIDICE researchers joined the IGS Nordic Branch Meeting hosted by GEUS. 🎓 Great exchange for glaciology scientists & students! ❄️ Talks by Lill Bjørst, Andreas Peter Ahlstrøm & Jason Box covered sea ice, climate adaptation & Greenland mass balance.

The LIQUIDICE team joined 345 researchers from 15 countries at the Svalbard Science Conference 2025 — a biannual Arctic hotspot for climate research & collaboration. Talks, posters, art & science — shaping the future of #ArcticResearch. 🌍❄️ #LIQUIDICE #SIOS #ClimateChange

🌍❄️ At the Arctic Circle Assembly Prof. Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir & Dr. Timothy James (Univ. of Iceland, ICELINK) and Dr. Bartek Luks (IG PAS, LIQUIDICE) from EU sister projects met to explore common links in observations, models, and community engagement. #ArcticCircle #LIQUIDICE #ICELINK

Proud to present LIQUIDICE at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 — one of the world’s key fora on the Arctic, climate, and sustainable innovation. Representatives of 3 LIQUIDICE partners joined global discussions on how science and technology can shape a resilient future of the Arctic. ❄️💧

LIQUIDICE is hiring a Postdoc to research green transition, glacier melt & climate adaptation in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). 📍 University of Copenhagen (GAS group), ToRS 🕒 22-month contract starting ~ Feb 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025, 23:59 CET Info: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

❄️The #LIQUIDICE project just released a #Greenland #albedo map (June-Aug 2025) showing how sunlight reflectivity changed through the melt season. ☀️ 🛰️ Using #SatelliteData from 1981-today, we track how #snow brightens and #melt darkens the #ice. #PolarResearch #ClimateChange #EarthObservation

❄️ 437 students, 10 schools, and 1️⃣ record-breaking Arctic lesson! 🌍 🎥 Agata Goździk from #LIQUIDICE #project & #IGPAS talked about how fast the #Arctic, and especially #Svalbard is warming, and why it matters for all of us. 🔗 youtu.be/m2H4kVD_t1I #ClimateChange #Science #Education #PolarResearch

❄️ As part of #LIQUIDICE, an autumn campaign was carried out on #HansGlacier #Spitsbergen. ⚠️ Since the late 1980s, its mass balance has been monitored as clearly negative. 💦 The glacier loses about 1.5 m of #water equivalent yearly. 😍 Stunning views make up for the tough #Arctic #fieldwork

🎈 Last weekend, our Project Coordinator, Bartłomiej Luks, together with Agata Goździk and Agnieszka Kowalik, took part in the family Science Picnic “My City” in Warsaw. ❄️ They shared knowledge about polar research and the goals of #LIQUIDICE as part of the project’s #dissemination activities. 💙

📢Record #Arctic melt on #Svalbard in summer 2024 ~1% of total #ice mass lost. Comparable to #Greenland. 🚨New scientific publication led by Prof. Thomas Vikhamar Schuler (University of Oslo) confirms the validity of the #glacier monitoring. 🔗 bit.ly/4fZpusY #ClimateChange #Cryosphere #LIQUIDICE

🤝 Continuing our #MeetUs series in #LIQUIDICE! 9️⃣ University of Silesia in Katowice 🇵🇱 🔬 The UŚ team supports #OpenScience with #FAIR #data & collects key polar field data: #glacier mass balance, #snowcover, #permafrost & #glacial #rivers. #Glaciology #PolarResearch #ScienceForClimate #Poland

🤝 Continuing our #MeetUs series for #LIQUIDICE! 8️⃣ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM 🇪🇸 🔬The #UPM team uses radar to study polythermal #glaciers & models their future under #ClimateChange. 🏛️ Spain’s top technical university with strong roots in #Engineering & #Research. #Glaciology #Science

Big step forward for LIQUIDICErs! 💧 We've submitted our first 3 deliverables to the EU Commission: Dissemination Plan, Project Handbook & Data Management Plan. You may find two of them on our page in the LIBRARY section. Progress is flowing—more to come! 🚀 #EUProjects #Research #FAIRdata #Teamwork