Calling all Early Career Scientists! We are offering an opportunity to bring your science to policymakers @COP30 by volunteering at the 2025 Cryosphere Pavilion! Applications close Monday, September 1: https://t.co/A1BxKlu9dn Please share widely!

Getting used to this image: #glaciers almost completely naked - unprotected by the white snow - in August... While July was good for glaciers after record-melt in June, the new heat wave again results in major ice loss @glamos_ch @VAW_glaciology

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Here are some photos from last year's Pavilion. Key topics – including ice sheets and sea-level rise, mountain glaciers and snow, permafrost, sea ice, and polar oceans – were featured in more than 70 side events. Our team of ECS volunteers helped ensure everything ran smoothly.

We need to speed up the transition from fossil fuels in this year’s NDCs at COP30 to save the cryosphere. New report by UNSG @antonioguterres ⬇️ "That world is within reach, but it won’t happen on its own. Not fast enough. Not fair enough. It is up to us. This is our moment."

Antarctic and Southern Ocean stability is critical not only for the polar ice sheet but also global ecosystems and communities. We are attending #ATCM47 as part of ASOC, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, providing scientific advice to inform decision making 🇦🇶

“Species-rich Antarctica” is more than just a youth art project - it's a call to action. ASOC urges #ATCM to advance the regulatory framework for growing Antarctic tourism and designate the emperor penguin as a specially protected species. 🖼️ 📸: Viktoria Spokojna

The emperor #penguin is on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. This #ATCM47, countries have a crucial chance to give it Specially Protected Species status and help prevent its disappearance. https://t.co/qiEw3JtqqL #ProtectAntarctica

Today ICCI's Antarctic Director shared the latest science in #ATCM discussions, stating that geoengineering is not a solution to ice loss. She stressed the need to avoid exploiting sensitive Antarctic environments as a means to experiment with geoengineering interventions.

Today the #ATCM47 - #CEP27 officially began in Milan. Delegates from 41 countries and 8 scientific, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations will work together in Milan until 3 July. 🇦🇶 #Antarctica #InternationalCooperation ➡️ https://t.co/JC95bCYkBQ

The opening plenary and annual SCAR lecture on latest science will take place Tuesday morning. Schedule: https://t.co/rfPZE40v4G Concerted action is needed to better identify early warning indicators of threshold behavior from Antarctica & strengthen environmental protection.

Today is the first day of the 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, held in Milan 🇮🇹 from June 23-July 3 alongside the 27th #CEP. An important issue: the risk of multi-meter sea level rise if critical thresholds in the Antarctic Ice Sheet system are crossed.

Today the 27th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (#CEP27) began in Milan, with the participation of nearly 450 delegates from state Parties to the Protocol and intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. 🇮🇹 🇦🇶 #Antarctica #AntarcticaProtected

"We're putting the planet into a condition that hasn't existed since humanity has evolved as a species, and it's destroying our natural landscapes and water supplies...making our communities uninhabitable," said Pomeroy. https://t.co/oT8HPZ58wy Clearly, his words went unheeded.

Dr. John Pomeroy @usask #IYGP exhorted G7 leaders to “just look up” at the mountains around them to see what is happening, in an allusion to the film where scientists warn humanity of an approaching comet that will destroy Earth, an analogy for today’s climate crisis.

But what is happening as a result of climate inaction is also terrible, and if we continue not to do what we know is needed – transition off fossil fuels – it will become more terrible still.

Of course there are terrible things happening across the planet: in the Middle East, in Ukraine, for that matter in southern Sudan (but that also went unheeded). And of course there is pressure to tiptoe around a U.S. leadership that ignores reality on climate.

Five of the seven G7 leaders present are presiding over dying glaciers alongside shrinking snowpack that threaten water resources for decades and centuries to come, when new 2025 climate commitments could finally turn the tide of water loss and sea-level rise – and not a word.

A landmark study released three weeks ago (highlighted by negotiators at #SB62) identified the Canadian and U.S. Rockies as one of the four most vulnerable glacier regions of the world, along with the European Alps (G7 members France, Germany and Italy), Scandinavia and Iceland.

This would have been bad at any G7, but this year of all years? G7 leaders met in Kananaskis, nestled in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, with a backdrop of some of the most rapidly-melting glaciers in the world.