🧊 Live Glacier Melt Tracker
Global glacier & ice-sheet mass loss, plus live-tracked Antarctic iceberg calving. Ice-mass figures come from WGMS & NASA GRACE/GRACE-FO and update on their own monthly-to-annual publishing cycle; the iceberg feed below refreshes live from NASA EONET every time this page is opened.
408 Gt
Global glacier mass lost, 2025
6th most negative year on record — WGMS
9,583 Gt
Cumulative glacier loss since 1975
≈26.4 mm of sea-level rise — WGMS
264 Gt/yr
Greenland ice sheet, avg. loss
since 2002 — NASA GRACE/GRACE-FO
135 Gt/yr
Antarctic ice sheet, avg. loss
since 2002 — NASA GRACE/GRACE-FO
≈2.3 mm/yr
Combined sea-level contribution
glaciers + Greenland + Antarctica
Glacier mass loss is accelerating WGMS reference glaciers
Average annual mass-loss rate by period, worldwide reference glaciers. 2025 shown separately as the latest single-year reading.
🛰️ Live Antarctic iceberg tracker NASA EONET
Large tabular icebergs currently being tracked by satellite — a direct, live signal of ice-shelf calving. Refreshes on load; auto-updates every 5 minutes.
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Notable glaciers to watch
A mix of the fastest-changing, longest-studied, and most closely watched glaciers on Earth.
| Glacier | Status | Map |
|---|---|---|
| Thwaites GlacierWest Antarctica — "the Doomsday Glacier" | Already responsible for ~4% of global sea-level rise; satellite records (2002–2022) show shear-zone fracturing accelerating its flow. One of the biggest wildcards in sea-level forecasts. | 📍 Map → |
| Perito MorenoSanta Cruz, Argentina (Patagonia) | Nearly stationary 2000–2019 — one of the few glaciers that wasn't retreating. Front has pulled back ~790 m since 2019; ice-front thinning near the lake now ~5.5 m/year (as of Mar 2026). | 📍 Map → |
| Jakobshavn IsbræIlulissat, Greenland | One of the fastest-flowing glaciers on Earth, moving up to ~46 m/day; drains roughly 6–7% of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet. | 📍 Map → |
| Athabasca GlacierColumbia Icefield, Alberta, Canada | Retreated over 1.5 km and lost more than half its volume in the past 125 years; currently thinning about 5 m/year. | 📍 Map → |
| South Cascade GlacierWashington, USA | USGS's longest continuous mass-balance record in North America, monitored since 1958. Glacier area down to 1.8 km² within its 6.14 km² basin as of 2015. | 📍 Map → |
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Ice-mass & glacier figures: World Glacier Monitoring Service (global reference glaciers) and
NASA GRACE/GRACE-FO (Greenland & Antarctic ice sheets) — these update on monthly-to-annual research cycles, not in real time.
Iceberg tracking: NASA EONET Sea & Lake Ice feed, genuinely live on each page load.
Individual glacier notes cite USGS, NASA Earth Observatory, and recent field reporting as linked above.
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