Have you ever wondered how many glaciers will still exist in the future? Or how many glaciers we might lose each year in the coming decades? In our new study (Van Tricht et al., 2025), we shift the focus of glacier modelling from ice volume to individual glaciers. Because every glacier, no matter how small, can matter. Not necessarily for global sea-level rise, but for landscapes, ecosystems, cult ...[Read More]
Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century
Fig 1: Ice cave at the Morteratsch glacier. These caves show the disintegration of glacier fronts. [Credit: Jonas van Breedam]