Dry Andean (debris-covered) glaciers and rock glaciers are essential to river runoff by contributing meltwaters in this extremely arid area. We quantify surface lowering for 19 glaciers and 3 debris-covered glaciers, and unchanged velocities for 47 rock glaciers in a ground-truthed and Pléiades satellite imagery based integrative glacier-permafrost study on catchment-scale for 2019-2025. For this period, our findings indicate glacial decline next to permafrost stability.

The 6th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP), hosted by the International Permafrost Association (IPA), brought together researchers from all over the world in Puigcerdà, Spain, on 18–22 June 2023. The conference covered a number of relevant aspects of permafrost research. This is a report from five early-career researchers who attended the conference and presented their research.