The rapid wide-scale melting of ancient ice caps, glaciers and permafrost is not only rising sea levels but emitting millennia-worth of greenhouse gas stores, such as methane, back into the atmosphere, further exacerbating pressures of climate change. While the UK hasn’t seen a glacier since the end of the last ice age, our farming methods are depleting reflective surfaces worldwide that provide water supply for agriculture and other uses upon which we depend, while sinking our coastal communities.