Glaciers are massive, dense ice formations that are constantly and very slowly moving under their own weight. A glacier forms where the amount of snow exceeds melting over many years, usually over centuries.

Our warming climate is causing glaciers to melt at much faster rates. One-third of the world’s most iconic glaciers have been “condemned to disappear” within 23 years, according to a new report by the United Nations.

Rapid glacial melting is a leading cause of sea level rise. 

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04.11.2022 / U.S. Geological Survey / What is a glacier?

11.03.2022 / CBC News / Major glaciers, including in Yosemite and Kilimanjaro, will be gone within 23 years due to climate change 

06.14.2022 / NASA / Losing a Layer of Protection

04.15.2022 / Columbia Climate School / Glacier Retreat in the Andes is Bankrupting a Billion Dollar Corporation

04.21.2022 / Reuters / In Bolivia, a battle over a receding glacier ‘doomed to disappear’

04.23.2022 / Oregon Live / These NW glaciers expected to disappear in 50 years