UNESCO, WMO and the IYGP Community will celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and the World Water Day at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris on 18-19 March 2026, closing the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025 and launching the new Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences with dedicated sessions and side events highlighting the vital links between cryosphere, water and gender equality.
MUSE will also be present with a contribution from Mauro Gobbi, researcher in the Research and Museum Collections Office, who will co-coordinate the session entitled “Beyond Glacier Loss: biodiversity monitoring, hazard assessment, governance, and citizen action for the future of cryospheric landscapes” and during which he will also give a talk on the biology of glacial environments.
MUSE talk
The Biological Pulse of the Cryosphere: Glaciers as Living Sanctuaries
with Mauro Gobbi
Ice-related biodiversity, refugia for cold-adapted species, the ecology of glacial, proglacial and periglacial landforms, and the urgent need to bridge glaciology and conservation biology.
