Pam Pearson

Cooling Effect of Both Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Declining Along with Ice Extent

Geophysical Research Letters, 17 July 2024 Arctic sea ice has been called the "Earth's refrigerator," cooling the planet by reflecting…

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Growing Andean Glacier Loss Increases Likelihood of Future Water Scarcity

The Cryosphere, 22 May 2024 Glacier volume has decreased by 8% across the Andes since 2010, with snow and ice…

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Video of the Week: “From Alaska to the Andes: Increasing Glacier Loss Across the Americas”

Dr. Bethan Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Newcastle University in the UK, and on July 11…

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Continued Glacier Ice Loss from Alaska’s Juneau Ice Field Now Largely Locked In

Nature Communications, 2 July 2024 The massive Juneau Icefield in Alaska contains more than one thousand glaciers and has rapidly…

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Increasing Glacier Loss Across the Andes Since the Little Ice Age

Geophysical Research Letters, 30 June 2024 Tropical glaciers in the Andes are now losing ice up to 10 times faster…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Global Glacier Loss Projections” with David Rounce

From the high latitudes to mountain regions, the world's glaciers are responding faster than expected to fossil fuel emissions. This…

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“Every Tenth of a Degree” Pushes Antarctica Closer to Potential New Threshold

Nature Geoscience, 25 June 2024 Modelers have long theorized about processes that might account for the unusually rapid sea-level rise…

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Impact of Sea-Level Rise on U.S. Infrastructure through 2050 Mapped by New Report

News Briefing, 25 June 2024 Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that nearly three million people live…

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Key Cryosphere Takeaways from the Antarctic Treaty and UNFCCC Meetings

46th ATCM and 26th CEP in Kochi, Kerala, India | 20-30 May 2024 For the first time, the Antarctic Treaty…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Mountains: How to Leverage Funding for Adaptation”

Mountain areas are key for climate adaptation efforts due to their transboundary and global importance (natural hazards, water towers, global…

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Global Emissions Dictate Rate of Unavoidable Sea Level Rise from Major West Antarctic Glaciers

The Cryosphere, 3 June 2024 A new model incorporating the latest ice-ocean interactions projects that future stability of West Antarctica's…

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Local Extinction of Polar Bears in Canada’s Hudson Bay if Global Warming Exceeds 2°C

Communications Earth & Environment, 13 June 2024 The Hudson Bay polar bear population, comprising three of the world's 19 remaining…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Critical Thresholds of Arctic Climate”

The Arctic is currently warming up to four times faster than the rest of the planet. Rapidly disappearing Arctic sea…

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SB60 Updates and AMI Press Conference

Dear Cryosphere Capsule readers, It has been a pleasure seeing many of you in Bonn this week during the annual…

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Warm Seawater Under Thwaites Could Bring Faster Sea Level Rise

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 20 May 2024 Seawater pulses from tides moving beneath the vulnerable Thwaites Glacier…

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