In case you didn't realise, 2025 is the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and March 21 was the annual World Day for Glaciers. The frozen freshwater stocks of our planet urgently need all the awareness and support they can get. At 1.5 degrees warming and rising, they are disappearing fast and that will affect the water supplies of two billion people, contribute to sea level rise, and accelerate further warming through the loss of albedo.
So, plenty of reasons to care about glaciers, and high time to dedicate a feature to them, which I hadn't done before.
a world in meltdown
Current Biology Volume 35, Issue 6, 24 March 2025, Pages R199-R201
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See also my Mastodon thread where I highlighted all CB features of 2025.
The thread for 2024 is here .
Glaciers around the world offer imposing, landscape-defining sights, but many are shrinking and doomed to disappear. The photo shows the Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina. (Photo: pclvv/Flickr (CC BY 2.0).)
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