Aneto and Aneto Glacier 2015 | 2026 Collapse of the ice continuum at the roof of the Pyrenees! 🧊🔥 (Main Aneto remaining ice body is right to this view) In coming years, we are moving towards complete de-icing of the region 💧 Future generations will enjoy a stone desert... 📷 Miquel Seu

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Glacier Subfossil Wood 2026 – Crowdfunding on wemakeit

With your support, I will collect ancient wood from melting glaciers across the Alps (FR, CH, AT) to determine when these trees were alive and precisely measure glacier variations during the Holocene!

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Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just tree-ring dated this outer fragment of a Swiss stone pine log found at the front of a major Swiss glacier! 🌲💍🧊 460 rings over 10 cm! (= tree lifespan ~700 yrs!) 😲 This implies that the glacier was smaller than it is today between ~4.8 and 4.1 ka! 🔥 (...but not that it was warmer/today!) 🧐

To help me gather more evidence like this 👇 - and to acquire such a sample! - have a look here: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... ...and spread the word! 🙏

Glacier Subfossil Wood 2026 – Crowdfunding on wemakeit

With your support, I will collect ancient wood from melting glaciers across the Alps (FR, CH, AT) to determine when these trees were alive and precisely measure glacier variations during the Holocene!

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Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just tree-ring dated this outer fragment of a Swiss stone pine log found at the front of a major Swiss glacier! 🌲💍🧊 460 rings over 10 cm! (= tree lifespan ~700 yrs!) 😲 This implies that the glacier was smaller than it is today between ~4.8 and 4.1 ka! 🔥 (...but not that it was warmer/today!) 🧐

Mer de Glace has lost in thickness (on average across its entire surface!) 3.6 m this summer! 🧊🔥 This means 10 cm/day at 1900 m asl! (>13 m)! 😲 ...and that breaks the sad 2022 record! 📈😭 Source: www.montagnes-magazine.com/actus-la-mer...

Just tree-ring dated this outer fragment of a Swiss stone pine log found at the front of a major Swiss glacier! 🌲💍🧊 460 rings over 10 cm! (= tree lifespan ~700 yrs!) 😲 This implies that the glacier was smaller than it is today between ~4.8 and 4.1 ka! 🔥 (...but not that it was warmer/today!) 🧐

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2026 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To contribute: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2026 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To contribute: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏

A first: no snow at Weissfluhjoch (2,536 m, GR)! ❄️🔥 For 1st time in 90 yrs of measurements, there was no snowcover between July and September 2026 at the #SLF research site! Source and 📹 @slfdavos.bsky.social

Homme Glacier and La Meije (3,983 m) at sunset today! 🤩

La Meije (3,983 m) playing hide and seek this evening! 😍

Ailefroide NE face (3,954 m) and its cold based hanging glacier, Le 'Glacier Suspendu', today! 🏔🧊

Glacier Noir and Ailefroide (3,954m) today! 😍

Golden eagle and Râteau East (3,809 m) today! 🏔🦅🤍

Tabuchet Glacier and Doigt de Dieu (3,973 m asl, 2nd highest peak of La Meije) yesterday! 🤩

Longest lasting snowpatch in Scotland about to melt completely for the 6th year in a row! ❄️🔥 For the record, it melted only 3 times during the 20th century! 📉 rmets.org/metmatters/s... 📷 Iain Cameron

ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

The last 5 years we entered an Era of extreme ice loss in the Alps! 🧊🔥 Over this period, 20% of initial ice volume has gone! 📈 This is evidenced here on Aletsch Gl. (2,900 m asl), a place where the ice shouldn’t melt to maintain glacier in balance! ⚖️ 📷 @matthias-huss.bsky.social

Perito Moreno (Patagonia, ARG) The front of this iconic glacier is now 910 m away from Península Magallanes, thus exceeding the ~750 m measured by German geologist Rudolf Hauthal in 1899! 🧊🔥 Area loss since 2018 amounts to 3.67 km²! 📈 Source: Glaciarium El Calafate

Devastating! 😱 The figures have just been published by glamos.ch Swiss glacier have lost 5.5% of their volume this year! (2nd worst year just after 2022)! Since 2022, 20% of total ice volume has gone! 📈 20%...in just FIVE years! 🧊🔥 Full report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

Mount Stanley (Rwenzori Mtns, UG) 1906 | 2022 The massif peaking at Margherita Peak (5,109 m) is the last of the three formerly glaciated zones in Rwenzori Mtns 🏔️🧊 Africa is currently losing its last glaciers... 🔥 📷 Vittorio Sella and Klaus Thymann

On 25th Sept., took place the biennial survey of Arcouzan Glacier (Mont Valier, Ariège) the most ‘special’ of the Pyrenean glaciers! 🧊💪 Despite all the heatwaves, it was still covered in firn, but amount of remaining ice and flow are limited 🌊🔥 📷 F. Laurens / H. Lucas hanslucas.com/flaurens/pho...

From Grande Sassière (3,751 m) yesterday, with Gliairetta Gl. at foreground and Gran Paradiso (4,061 m) on the horizon! 🏔️🧊 Sad succession of dusty, dying, shrivelled glaciers! 🔥 Soon these mountains, among highest in the Alps, will be completely black in summer 😢 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social

Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety

Glacier des Grands Couloirs 1988 | 2023 | 2026 The iconic route to the highest peak in Vanoise has long gone... 🧊🔥 📷 Bernard Vion

Moody view of Adishi Glacier (Svaneti, Georgia) these days! 😍 A formidable ice fall flowing south from Gistola (4,860 m asl), whose tongue is receding and increasingly debris-covered! 🧊🔥 📷 Laurette Le Gall 🙏

The most heavily glaciated Alpine massif as seen from a plane few days ago! 🏔️ So bare... 😲 Accumulation zones of Unteraar (lower R), Fiesch (mid) and Aletsch (up. mid) are the driest in living memory! 🧊🔥 Mont Blanc (up. L) far behind the cloud-free Rhone valley! 📷 by Sushovan Gupta 🙏

Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim

Rise and fall of a discipline! 🏺🧊🔥 (evidenced by discontinuation of JGA)! 'Most of ice patches in North America and the Swiss Alps had melted completely by 2010. [...] these factors have resulted in a significant decline in archaeological discoveries' 😲 journal.equinoxpub.com/JGA/issue/vi...

A (not so) classic view of the lake reflections of the two most beautiful mountains in the Mont Blanc massif yesterday! 😍 📷 by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏