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Her work invites viewers to look closely at the textures, light, and movement of ice—revealing glaciers as powerful yet vulnerable witnesses to the climate crisis.
Meet Sarah and our other panelists on March 19 from 6pm CET for an online panel discussion as a Side Event to the UNESCO World Glacier Day.
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Witnessing the Melt: Art as Climate Testimony
Meet our Panelists: Sarah Bachinger
Sarah Bachinger is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores the fragile beauty of alpine and polar landscapes. Through carefully observed images of glaciers and high-mountain environments, she documents both their striking presence and their rapid transformation in a warming world.
Her poetry invites readers to encounter landscapes such as glaciers and volcanoes not simply as scenery, but as dynamic presences whose stories are entwined with our own.
Meet Katy and our other panelists on March 19 from 6pm CET for an online panel discussion as a Side Event to the UNESCO World Glacier Day.
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Witnessing the Melt: Art as Climate Testimony
Meet our Panelists: Katy Didden
Katy is a poet whose work explores the deep timescales and powerful forces shaping our planet. In her acclaimed collection The Glacier’s Wake, she gives voice to glaciers and other natural forms, weaving together scientific insight, environmental reflection, and lyrical imagination.
Her work explores the emotional and sensory dimensions of climate change, inviting audiences to listen to glaciers not only as scientific subjects, but as living presences whose voices are increasingly fragile. She has just been nominated as 'Performer of the Year' at the Icelandic Music Awards 2026.
Meet NĂ©fur and our other panelists on March 19 from 6pm CET for an online panel discussion as a Side Event to the UNESCO World Glacier Day.
Witnessing the Melt: Art as Climate Testimony
Meet our Panelists: NĂ©fur
NĂ©fur is a vocalist, composer, and performance artist whose work brings the cryosphere into the realm of sound. Combining field recordings from glaciers with her rich, vibrant vocal palette, she creates immersive compositions that translate the movement, cracking, and melting of ice into music.
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This dramatic shrinkage shows how sensitive these low-elevation ice bodies are to warming. Their relative loss is faster than for many larger Alpine glaciers.
Even as its ice fades, Slovenia’s glacial legacy lives on in the shape of the land: U-shaped valleys, hidden lakes like Bohinj, and rivers that still trace the paths carved by long-lost ice.
Today, only two tiny ice masses remain in Slovenia: The Triglav Glacier and the Skuta Glacier. These aren’t glaciers in the full scientific sense anymore: they lack movement and crevasses and are more accurately described as glacial remnants or ice patches.
In the mid-1800s the ice beneath Slovenia’s highest peak once covered more than 40 ha. Today, that figure is less than 0.2 ha.
In Focus: Slovenia
A collaboration between CIPRA Slovenija and Glacierwatch
Slovenia might seem small on a map, but it carries the essence of Alpine wildness in its dramatic peaks, emerald valleys, and glacial landscapes. The Julian Alps, part of the Eastern Alps in northwest Slovenia, are home to some of the most iconic mountain scenery in Europe, shaped over millennia by ice and time.
