Front. Earth Sci. Frontiers in Earth Science Front. Earth Sci. 2296-6463 Frontiers Media S.A. 1664455 10.3389/feart.2025.1664455 Earth Science Correction Correction: The socio-cultural implications of glacier retreat demand further attention: a case study from Cerro El Plomo in Santiago, Chile Cullen et al. 10.3389/feart.2025.1664455 Cullen Kate Altemus 1 * Ayala Álvaro 2 Spencer Millie 3 1 Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 2 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland 3 Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Edited and reviewed by: Daniel Falaschi, CONICET Argentine Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Sciences (IANIGLA), Argentina

 *Correspondence: Kate Altemus Cullen, kate_cullen@berkeley.edu 02 09 2025 2025 13 1664455 12 07 2025 25 08 2025 Copyright © 2025 Cullen, Ayala and Spencer. 2025 Cullen, Ayala and Spencer

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 A Correction on The socio-cultural implications of glacier retreat demand further attention: a case study from Cerro El Plomo in Santiago, Chile by Altemus Cullen K, Ayala Á and Spencer M (2025). Front. Earth Sci. 13:1564881. doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1564881 glacier retreat climate change impacts socio-cultural implications central Chile Andes multi-disciplinary collaboration section-at-acceptance Cryospheric Sciences

There was a formatting error in Figure 2C as published. The subscript “-1” was spaced too far to the right of the y-axis label. The corrected Figure 2C appears below.

(A) Glacier area change from 2000 (DGA, 2014) to 2025 (outlines derived from a ©Airbus satellite image, 2025), overlaying Maxar© (2024) basemap, and (B) Elevation changes of the study glaciers from 2017 to 2022 as extracted from the Pleiades Glacier Observatory (PGO) (LEGOS and OMP, 2025). The glacier outlines correspond to the year 2019 (DGA, 2022). (C) Cerro El Plomo Glacier annual mass balance estimated in the studies of Farias-Barahona et al. (2020) (FB20), Braun et al. (2019) (B19), Hugonnet et al. (2021) (H21) and LEGOS and OMP, 2025 for different periods since 1955. Shaded areas show the uncertainty associated with each dataset. See the Supplementary Material for methodological details.

Map and graph with three panels depicting glacial changes. Panel A: Satellite map showing glacier areas in 2000 and projected for 2025 marked in red and blue outlines, respectively, with the summit of Cerro El Plomo indicated. Panel B: Color-coded map illustrating elevation change from 2017 to 2022, with red indicating major decreases. Locations like Esmeralda and Castaños are labeled. Panel C: Graph showing mass balance trends from 1960 to 2020, with four different records labeled FB20, B19, H21, and B24, depicting varying data over time.

In the published article there was a typo in the abstract. The timeframe for the glacier tongue thinning was indicated as 2017–2019 instead of 2017–2022. This sentence has been corrected to:

“The mountain’s hanging glacier has retreated up the steep bedrock, with many areas of the glacier tongue thinning by 10–20 m from 2017 to 2022.”

The original article has been updated.

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