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Glaciers play a foundational role in sustaining ecosystems, regulating hydrological cycles and supporting livelihoods, particularly by supplying fresh water to downstream populations. Yet this natural system is now under severe threat. Climate change, largely driven by human activity, is accelerating glacier melt at an unprecedented pace. Over the past two decades, global glacier mass has declined sharply, with the most rapid losses recorded in five of the last six years. Sci