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Policy brief: The future of the Andes Water Towers
The Deplete and Retreat team are delighted to be attending the first ever celebration for International Day of the Glacier in Paris, at the UNESCO HQ, in March 2025. We will be hosting a side event, entitled “A vanishing mountain cryosphere and its importance to the water cycle under climate change“, aimed at informing stakeholders…
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International Day of the Glacier: Deplete and Retreat at the UNESCO celebration, Paris
We are delighted to announce that Deplete and Retreat will be represented at the first ever UNESCO World Day for Glaciers celebration in Paris, 20-21 March 2025. UNESCO state that this high level event, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, will serve as a platform for dialogue and action regarding the state of the World’s…
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International Day of the Glacier: why are glaciers important, and what does it mean to preserve them?
It’s the first ever ‘International Day of the Glacier’ on 21st March 2025. This is part of the ‘International year of glacier preservation‘, being celebrated world-wide. Why is this being celebrated? Worldwide, glaciers are shrinking. Everywhere we look, glaciers are getting smaller each year; they are melting and losing more ice than they are gaining…
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AWS installation in Aysén
By Emily Potter In January 2024, a team from Deplete and Retreat travelled to the Aysén region of Chile to set up a weather station near the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. Alejandro Dussaillant, Tamsin Edwards, Wouter Buytaert and Emily Potter travelled from the UK, meeting project partner Iñigo Irarrázaval Chile. A huge thanks to our…
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AWS installation: La Paz, Bolivia
In June 2023, as part of our Deplete and Retreat project, Jeremy Ely, Tom Matthews, Wouter Buytaert and Jose Cuadros-Adriazola travelled to La Paz, Bolivia, to scope the installation of hydrological loggers and our automatic weather station at Zongo Glacier and Ancohoma, Bolivia. See more of our Deplete and Retreat News here. We met with,…
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Installation of AWS, Glaciar Universidad, Chile
In December 2023, Bethan Davies, Owen King and Jeremy Ely travelled to Santiago, Chile, to meet up with our colleagues Juan Luis-Garcia and Claudio Bravo from Chile. Our goal was simple: to install an automatic weather station (AWS) adjacent to Glaciar Universidad in the Central Andes, some 6 hr drive from Santiago. Glaciar Universidad is…