In 2025, countries around the world are coming together to recognize the importance and impacts of climate change on glaciers, snow, ice and their connection to downstream water resources. This is the movement to secure our water future. Snow and ice are a part of the Canadian identity. We need to protect them.
From left to right, maps of glacier cover for Canada’s Coast Mountains, Interior Ranges and Rocky Mountains, and the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Canadian Geographic – Rivers of Ice by E. Shilts et al., 1998, Cartography by Steven Fick and Andrew Murray; as used in the USGS Satellite Atlas of Glaciers of the World – North America – Canada)