https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melaine-Le-Roy-2?ev=hdr_xprf
Today was maybe one of the hardest working day ever...
Took me 3h40 to get back to Belalp with 40kg (rope, chainsaw, wood)... 😫
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
Ice stratigraphy suggests unprecedented melting conditions since ice began to form! 🔥
'We encourage the scientific community to study these archives before they are lost forever'
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Ice stratigraphy suggests unprecedented melting conditions since ice began to form! 🔥
'We encourage the scientific community to study these archives before they are lost forever'
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏
📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏
500 yr-long Juniperus tree ring-based temperature reconstruction with oldest living shrub 367 yo! 💪
Striking here: 1/3 of corpus is from archive (collected end of 19th c)
Highlights importance of reanalysing old samples using modern analytical techniques! 👏
500 yr-long Juniperus tree ring-based temperature reconstruction with oldest living shrub 367 yo! 💪
Striking here: 1/3 of corpus is from archive (collected end of 19th c)
Highlights importance of reanalysing old samples using modern analytical techniques! 👏
Release area ~1800 m asl
📷 Sylvain Thiabaud
Release area ~1800 m asl
📷 Sylvain Thiabaud
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
It dates the Bronze Age Advance Period of this glacier to 1553+ BCE, which is conform to other calendar dates we have in the Alps at ~1550-1540 BCE (Mer de Glace and Gepatsch) 🧊⏱️
It dates the Bronze Age Advance Period of this glacier to 1553+ BCE, which is conform to other calendar dates we have in the Alps at ~1550-1540 BCE (Mer de Glace and Gepatsch) 🧊⏱️
Number of days without thaw in Zurich since 1882 🥶
20th century average: ~30
1963: 56 ! 📉
2025: 4 ! 📈
Via Simon Scherrer
Data @meteoschweiz.ch
Number of days without thaw in Zurich since 1882 🥶
20th century average: ~30
1963: 56 ! 📉
2025: 4 ! 📈
Via Simon Scherrer
Data @meteoschweiz.ch
All the retreat you see here is caused by human activity, and it will only stop when the last cubic metre of ice has melted! 📈💧
📷 Photos: @glacionaut
🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo
All the retreat you see here is caused by human activity, and it will only stop when the last cubic metre of ice has melted! 📈💧
📷 Photos: @glacionaut
🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo
After more than a century of calving, it is now entirely grounded!
The ice was still abutting the rocky outcrop from where the first pic is taken only 5 yrs ago!
www.ktoo.org/2025/11/25/m...
After more than a century of calving, it is now entirely grounded!
The ice was still abutting the rocky outcrop from where the first pic is taken only 5 yrs ago!
www.ktoo.org/2025/11/25/m...
Here is a 600 yr-old Siberian pine cross section showing no less that 7 scars on the tree side facing the rock cliff upstream! 🔥
All the scars are dated to the year (or season) and are used to build chronicles of different hillslope processes! 📅
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Here is a 600 yr-old Siberian pine cross section showing no less that 7 scars on the tree side facing the rock cliff upstream! 🔥
All the scars are dated to the year (or season) and are used to build chronicles of different hillslope processes! 📅
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Adolphe Braun
c. 1860
Absolutely gorgeous early view of this iconic landscape! 🏔️
The Matterhorn seems to float above a still wintery scenery - five years before its first ascent! ❄️
Adolphe Braun
c. 1860
Absolutely gorgeous early view of this iconic landscape! 🏔️
The Matterhorn seems to float above a still wintery scenery - five years before its first ascent! ❄️
Unbelievable anomalies... +2°C since the 1960s! 😱
As a result Damavand (5609 m asl) was snow free for 1st time this summer and chronic drought is threatening millions of people! 💧
Graph: @rarohde.bsky.social
Unbelievable anomalies... +2°C since the 1960s! 😱
As a result Damavand (5609 m asl) was snow free for 1st time this summer and chronic drought is threatening millions of people! 💧
Graph: @rarohde.bsky.social
1980 | 2025
This small glacier within the high-precipitation (~10 m) maritime Westland was monitored for mass balance btw 1969 and 1975, and is almost extinct now! ✝️🧊🔥
Proglacial lake began to form early 1960s 🌊
📷 D. Norton
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1980 | 2025
This small glacier within the high-precipitation (~10 m) maritime Westland was monitored for mass balance btw 1969 and 1975, and is almost extinct now! ✝️🧊🔥
Proglacial lake began to form early 1960s 🌊
📷 D. Norton
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ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
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ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
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2022 | 2024
Rapid demise of the tongue of one of the most iconic glacier in NZ! 🧊😱
The 'Black Hole' that appeared in the early 2000s is no longer surrounded by ice... 🔥
The last advance of this glacier (1983-2008) is now just a very distant memory! 😰
📷 D. Norton
2022 | 2024
Rapid demise of the tongue of one of the most iconic glacier in NZ! 🧊😱
The 'Black Hole' that appeared in the early 2000s is no longer surrounded by ice... 🔥
The last advance of this glacier (1983-2008) is now just a very distant memory! 😰
📷 D. Norton
The ice flow velocity (up to 2 m/day!) combined with the incredible rate of retreat of the front (900 m over this period!) is simply mind-boggling! 🤪
📽️ Brian Anderson
vimeo.com/443262699?fl...
The ice flow velocity (up to 2 m/day!) combined with the incredible rate of retreat of the front (900 m over this period!) is simply mind-boggling! 🤪
📽️ Brian Anderson
vimeo.com/443262699?fl...
With lengthy heatwaves between +5 and +10°C! 🥵
And some people will say that ONE DAY at -5.6°C below the norm will balance everything out! 🤡
With lengthy heatwaves between +5 and +10°C! 🥵
And some people will say that ONE DAY at -5.6°C below the norm will balance everything out! 🤡
Here are 8 yrs of RG surface change on the Dos Lenguas RG (Dry Argentinean Andes), at 11 cm resolution!! 💪
Data: Melanie Stammler 🙏
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Here are 8 yrs of RG surface change on the Dos Lenguas RG (Dry Argentinean Andes), at 11 cm resolution!! 💪
Data: Melanie Stammler 🙏
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The accumulation area of the mighty Drang Drung glacier (largest gl. in Zanskar with ~70 km²) is visible at foreground 🧊
Nun-Kun massif (7,135 m) in the distance! 🏔️🏔️
Nanga Parbat (8,126 m) on the horizon!
Via @Kyangs_Thang 🙏
The accumulation area of the mighty Drang Drung glacier (largest gl. in Zanskar with ~70 km²) is visible at foreground 🧊
Nun-Kun massif (7,135 m) in the distance! 🏔️🏔️
Nanga Parbat (8,126 m) on the horizon!
Via @Kyangs_Thang 🙏
As a result the iconic Damavand (5,609 m asl), Iran's highest peak, was snow-free at mid-autumn, which appears to be unprecedented! ❄️😰
This stratovolcano had a 3.4 km ice cover in 2002... likely gone today! 🧊 📈
📽️ @IranIntl_En
As a result the iconic Damavand (5,609 m asl), Iran's highest peak, was snow-free at mid-autumn, which appears to be unprecedented! ❄️😰
This stratovolcano had a 3.4 km ice cover in 2002... likely gone today! 🧊 📈
📽️ @IranIntl_En
Bring me there please! 🥰
Via PatagoniaVertical / IG
Bring me there please! 🥰
Via PatagoniaVertical / IG
Passing in front of Morteratsch Glacier in the 1860s like Adolphe Braun here... 🧊 📷
At that time, it was at its Little Ice Age maximum extent!
Imagine that no AGW has occurred since then 🏭
The glacier would not have lost 3.3 km, but likely only one third... 📉
Imagine! 🥰
Passing in front of Morteratsch Glacier in the 1860s like Adolphe Braun here... 🧊 📷
At that time, it was at its Little Ice Age maximum extent!
Imagine that no AGW has occurred since then 🏭
The glacier would not have lost 3.3 km, but likely only one third... 📉
Imagine! 🥰