{"id":210761,"date":"2025-04-07T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/showcasing-the-death-of-the-worlds-glaciers"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:05:24","slug":"showcasing-the-death-of-the-worlds-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/showcasing-the-death-of-the-worlds-glaciers","title":{"rendered":"Showcasing the death of the world\u2019s glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/showcasing-the-death-of-the-worlds-glaciers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the mountains of evidence that climate change is warming Earth faster than any other point in recorded history is the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/understanding-climate\/climate-change-mountain-glaciers\">most glaciers around the world are shrinking or disappearing<\/a>. Melting <a href=\"https:\/\/nsidc.org\/learn\/parts-cryosphere\/glaciers\">glaciers<\/a> and ice sheets are already the biggest contributors to global sea level rise, and according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wgms.ch\/global-glacier-state\/\">World Glacier Monitoring Service<\/a>, ice loss rates have increased each decade since 1970. Yet, of the approximately 200,000 glaciers in the world currently, no database exists to identify <em>which<\/em> glaciers have disappeared, and when. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glims.org\/\">Global Land Ice Measurements from Space<\/a> (GLIMS) initiative, an international project designed to monitor the world\u2019s glaciers primarily using data from optical satellite instruments, aims to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlaciers are indicators of climate change because they grow and shrink on longer timescales than rapidly changing weather, so they give a clearer signal about climate,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/nsidc.org\/about\/about-nsidc\/what-we-do\/our-people\/bruce_raup\">Bruce Raup<\/a>, a senior associate scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and director of the GLIMS initiative. \u201cWe know that glaciers are disappearing, but we\u2019ve had no way to show that to people. So, we are making an effort to document glaciers that have disappeared and approximately when they disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the mountains of evidence that climate change is warming Earth faster than any other point in recorded history is the fact that most glaciers around the world are shrinking or disappearing. Melting glaciers and ice sheets are already the biggest contributors to global sea level rise, and according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}