2025 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF GLACIER CONSERVATION
From 17 to 21 March 2025 in the Margalef Building Lobby at the Faculty of Biology.
Glaciers play a fundamental role in regulating global climate and supplying fresh water, representing 75% of the planet's fresh water reserves. Climate change is accelerating melting, with serious global consequences such as rising sea levels and the alteration of ecosystems.
According to the United Nations, a third of glaciers could disappear before 2050, drastically affecting the water cycle, altering melting, snow discharge, groundwater recharge, rising sea levels and increasing geological and health risks. In addition, the availability of fresh water is decreasing, increasing competition for water resources in drier regions.
This highlights the need to act to preserve these fundamental ecosystems. The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Glacier Conservation and established March 21 as World Glacier Day, to raise awareness of their importance and the need to act in the face of imminent changes. These efforts aim to highlight the essential role of glaciers and mountain regions as freshwater reserves and providers of ecosystem services.
Video-documentary artist Pepe Molina Cruz has lent us his work:
“EVANESCET, THE LAST GLACIERS”
In which he documents the disappearance of glaciers around the world and how it will impact the future.
To follow his work: https://www.evanescetglaciaresfilmproject.es/
Glaciers play a fundamental role in regulating global climate and supplying fresh water, representing 75% of the planet's fresh water reserves. Climate change is accelerating melting, with serious global consequences such as rising sea levels and the alteration of ecosystems.
According to the United Nations, a third of glaciers could disappear before 2050, drastically affecting the water cycle, altering melting, snow discharge, groundwater recharge, rising sea levels and increasing geological and health risks. In addition, the availability of fresh water is decreasing, increasing competition for water resources in drier regions.
This highlights the need to act to preserve these fundamental ecosystems. The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Glacier Conservation and established March 21 as World Glacier Day, to raise awareness of their importance and the need to act in the face of imminent changes. These efforts aim to highlight the essential role of glaciers and mountain regions as freshwater reserves and providers of ecosystem services.
Video-documentary artist Pepe Molina Cruz has lent us his work:
“EVANESCET, THE LAST GLACIERS”
In which he documents the disappearance of glaciers around the world and how it will impact the future.
To follow his work: https://www.evanescetglaciaresfilmproject.es/