Pam Pearson

Video of the Week: UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

"Polar Oceans: Engine to the Global Ocean” June 2022 This side event at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) last week…

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Rising Temperatures Produced a Deadly Glacier Collapse in Italy

News Briefing: 4 July 2022 At least seven people were killed and fourteen are missing after a glacial ice shelf…

4 years ago

Intensification of Westerly Winds Surrounding Antarctica Increases Ice Loss

Communications Earth & Environment, 22 June 2022 The Southern Annular Mode, or SAM, is a belt of strong air currents…

4 years ago

Fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf Likely Within the Next Decade

The Cryosphere, 27 June 2022 The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is the only floating extension of Thwaites Glacier that remains…

4 years ago

COP26 Video of the Week: “Elevating Adaptation Action: From the Alps to the Andes to the Hindu Kush Himalaya” with ICIMOD

This COP26 session offers policy and youth perspectives on needed climate actions; highlighting ways in which policy makers and researchers…

4 years ago

Rising Temperatures and Decreased Snowpack Jeopardize Water Supplies Across the Western US

News Briefing: 14 June 2022 As the western United States endures a multi-year drought exacerbated by decreased seasonal snowpack most…

4 years ago

Extreme Heatwave in the Central Andes Accelerates the Melting of Glaciers

News Briefing: 13 June 2022 An intense heatwave earlier this year removed more than 90% of the snow cover in…

4 years ago

Rapid Loss of Peruvian Glaciers Threatens Freshwater Availability for Millions

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, June 2022 Glacier retreat could reduce water availability during the “dry season” in Peru by…

4 years ago

Video of the Week: Bonn UNFCCC Inter-sessional Meetings – Carbon Emissions from the “Country of Permafrost”: A Top-10 Emitter for the Global Stocktake

For the first Global Stocktake process under the Paris Agreement, a group of cryosphere research groups made a submission, not…

4 years ago

New Indicators of Permafrost Thaw in Alaska

Nature Geoscience, 6 June 2022 The formation of taliks – unfrozen ground surrounded by permafrost – is an important mechanism…

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Expanding Surface Rivers on Greenland Ice Sheet Accelerate Melting

Nature Climate Change, 16 June 2022 Runoff areas for rivers on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet expanded by…

4 years ago

Newly Released Temperature Data Make the Barents Arctic Earth’s Fastest-warming Region

Scientific Reports, 15 June 2022 New data from the North Barents Sea area show annual average temperatures have increased by…

4 years ago

Video of the Week: Press Conference from Bonn UNFCCC Inter-sessional Meetings: “Antarctica and Potentially Extreme Future Sea Level Rise” with Dr. Robert DeConto

At the Research Dialogues session of the UNFCCC meetings SB56 in Bonn last week, IPCC SROCC Lead Author Rob DeConto…

4 years ago

Rising Temperatures Threaten the Southern Ocean’s Ability to Absorb Carbon and Slow Climate Change

Nature Communications, 14 June 2022 Increased ice loss appears to be reducing the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb and store…

4 years ago

Two Major Antarctic Glaciers Losing Ice at Highest Rate in at least 5,000 Years

Nature Geoscience, 9 June 2022 Over the past three decades, ice loss has more than doubled from the Thwaites and…

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