Nathan Howes Digital Journalist Climate change is having a tremendous impact on Western Canada glaciers, which experienced their second-worst year of ice loss on record in 2025, according to a B.C. researcher and professorWith global warming leading to rapid Arctic sea ice melting, the effects of a changing climate are also hitting glaciers particularly hard, especially those in Western Canada. In 2025, an estimated 30 gigatonnes of ice from Western Canada glaciers were lost, according to Brian Menounos, a researcher and professor at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). SEE ALSO: The Arctic is still warming, so why no new sea ice low record since 2012? The amount of glacial loss in Western Canada last year continues the alarming trend of accelerated ice decline worldwide as a result of global warming.

Source: CBC News January 12, 2026 20:21 UTC