Sweden’s glaciers are much smaller than in, for example, Svalbard and Greenland; on average, they are 6,000 to 8,000 years old, compared to the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, which have existed ...

Some coastal areas are already struggling to adapt to sea level rise, and millions of people around the world are at risk of ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Global Annual Mass Change since 1950 UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation on January ...

In December 2022, the UN General assembly adopted the resolution to declare 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st of March of each year ...