2025 is the
UN International Year of
Glaciers’ Preservation
In 2025, countries around the world are coming together to celebrate the splendour of frozen landscapes, and to recognize the impacts of climate change on snow and ice and their implications for downstream water resources. This is the movement to protect our water heritage, and we as Canadians need to step up.
Photo by Lynn Martel.
Snow and ice are a part of the Canadian identity. We need to protect them.
Observe.
Predict.
Protect.
Solutions for a deglaciating future
Photo from the Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan.
This is about snow and ice.
The Canadian cryosphere (referring to areas featuring water in any of its frozen forms) is under stress. Mountain glaciers, snow, permafrost, icefields and everything in between are being impacted by rising atmospheric global temperatures. The Glacier Year is both a celebration of the utter beauty of our glaciated lands and joy we share in experiencing them, and a call to action to recognize the impacts that shifting snow and ice dynamics will have, and are already having, on the lives of everyday Canadians from coast to coast to coast. In Canada, we know already that ice and snow matter. But we need to do more to translate that knowledge into action.
“Winter started as this thing we had to get through; it has ended as this time to hold on to.”
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