Cryosphere Capsules

Less Snow and More Above-freezing Temperatures Speeding Arctic Glacier Melt

The Cryosphere, 15 August 2024 The Arctic contains one-fourth of the world's glaciers, and this study detailed how rising temperatures…

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Rapid Emissions Reductions May Kickstart Stabilizing Feedback for Antarctica

Science Advances, August 4, 2024 A state-of-the-art ice sheet model predicting future sea-level rise shows that humanity may be able…

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Central Greenland Ice-free with Temperatures Similar to Today’s

PNAS, August 5, 2024 The center of Greenland – currently buried under a 3-kilometer-thick sheet of ice – supported plant…

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Video of the Week: “Potential Cause of Faster and Higher Sea Level Rise from Antarctica”

Dr. Alexander Bradley is an ice-ocean modeler at the British Antarctic Survey, and visiting research fellow at Kings College London.…

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Call for COP29 Side Events and Early Career Scientist Volunteers

Dear Friends of the Cryosphere Pavilion and Cryosphere Capsule Readers! The COP29 Cryosphere Pavilion side event application process for COP29…

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Every Increment of Warming Above 1.5°C Increases the Risk of Crossing Tipping Points – Even if Overshoot is Temporary

Nature Communications, 1 August 2024 Current climate policies are not ambitious enough to prevent tipping points from being crossed, even…

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Recent Retreat of Tropical Andean Glaciers Unprecedented in 11,700 Years

Science, 1 August 2024 The current rate of glacier ice loss in the tropical Andes is unprecedented in at least…

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East Antarctica Hits 28°C Above Normal During Current Heatwave

News Briefing, 2 August 2024 East Antarctica is currently experiencing a heatwave in the middle of winter of up to…

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Video of the Week: “Unraveling the March 2022 Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica”

In this presentation given during an "Arctic 21" science-policy briefing earlier this year, Dr. Jonathan Wille decodes the record-busting March…

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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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