🏔️ Yakutat Glacier, in southeastern Alaska, is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers on Earth. What you are seeing: a “before and after”, from 1987 to 2013, shows the glacier’s terminus has retreated more than 5 kilometers. Why this matters: the Yakutat Ice Field, once connected to larger, higher-elevation glaciers that supplied a steady flow of ice, is now cut off and receives too little snowfall to sustain itself. The Yakutat Ice Field has been shrinking since the end of the Little Ice Age, but on top of this natural decline, human-caused global warming has accelerated the pace of retreat, pushing the glacier to melt faster than ever before. This is a stark reminder that glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change, and around the world, they are retreating due to rising temperatures. This is why #Glaciers2025 matters: these drastic changes underscore the urgent need for #ClimateAction and glaciers' preservation. 📷 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...