Glacier blanket

2023.07.31.

THE GLACIER BLANKET IS MORE THAN A BLANKET. 

​Glaciers in Sweden — and around the world — are melting at an increasingly rapid pace.
The deep blue ice within the glaciers is disappearing and no longer regenerating the way it used to. This melting contributes to rising sea levels, more frequent natural disasters, and negatively impacts nearby ecosystems.
Oskar Kihlborg, an experienced adventurer and glacier expert, saw the rapid changes firsthand while guiding expeditions on Kilimanjaro. Alarmed by the speed of the melting from year to year, he returned home determined to take action. That’s when he launched the climate awareness project Glacier Blanket — an initiative designed to highlight and visualize the effects of climate change.

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Glacier Blanket is a Swedish climate-awareness project that covers part of a glacier with wool blankets, measures the ice preserved over the summer season and uses the intervention to visualise glacier loss.

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  • Accessed: 22 August 2026

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Glacier Blanket.
https://www.glacierblanket.com
Accessed 22 August 2026.
Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20260822161918/https://www.glacierblanket.com/

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