The United Nations World Water Development Report on Mountains and glaciers: Water towers
Session 2: Cooperation and participation for preserving mountains and glaciers: Focus on Europe and North America
September 17, 2025
15:00 – 16:30 CET
Monthly Archives: September 2025
Wildfire ash is accelerating glacier melt in the Canadian Rockies
Andrea Woo
The Globe and Mail
September 5, 2025
As the helicopter turned toward Peyto Glacier, located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, John Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped.
Prof. Pomeroy, a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
He is familiar with the glacier’s rapid melting. It retreats tens of metres per year – 80 metres in 2021 alone. But on the helicopter ride last September, he was stunned to see how much it had transformed since even his previous visit…
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