CliC SSG member Miriam Jackson was recently interviewed from COP30, where she is sounding the alarm about the rapid shrinking of glaciers all over the world. In her conversation with Living on Earth host Paloma Beltran, Miriam explains:
Glaciers all over the world are changing fast—some areas faster than others. For example, the European Alps; the glaciers are changing very fast in parts of Norway, especially northern Norway, on Svalbard, at very high northerly latitudes.
What we’re seeing now is something very similar over the whole world, that all the different glaciers—the ones at very high latitudes close to the North Pole, the ones at very high elevation close to the equator, the ones on high mountains in Asia—they are all changing. Some of them are changing quite slowly, and some are changing quite fast.
Since 2000, many of them have lost 20 percent of their mass, some of them even more, and that’s a huge amount, to lose that much mass in just over 20 years. That’s not sustainable. At that rate, many glaciers are going to disappear very soon. Some have already disappeared; Venezuela and Slovenia lost their last glaciers quite recently. This isn’t something that we’re saying, “This is going to happen.” This is already happening.
