Theme

Over the past decades global warming has resulted in thinning and retreat and disappearance of many glaciers across the world. This has cultural, economic and environmental importance to human communities. The United Nations has declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and starting from 2025, March 21st is recognized as the World Day of Glaciers. The purpose of the year and day is to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers. The Global Glacier Casualty List, launched in August 2024, exists to remember their names and tell their stories.

This Annals of Glaciology Online Collection (formerly Issue) will follow up the stories of the Global Glacier Casualty List and other vanishing glaciers that are already extinct or threatened to disappear soon. The aim is to write up the stories of extinct and vanishing glaciers primarily in the short Annals format (~5 pages 3-5 figures).

This Annals of Glaciology Collection is not listed to an IGS symposium, but to the theme of vanishing glaciers and a tribute to the International Year of Glaciers’ preservation.

If you have questions about the suitability of your paper for this Annals issue, please contact the Associate Chief Editors for this issue, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir (gua@hi.is) and Liss M. Andreassen (lma@nve.no).