Cryosphere Capsules

Arctic Council Suspends Work Due to Invasion of Ukraine

On March 3, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States issued the following joint…

4 years ago

Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss Increases the “Atlantification” of the Fram Strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 18 February 2022 The Fram Strait is the main waterway connecting the central Arctic Ocean…

4 years ago

Driven by Meltwater and Rising Temperatures, the Global Water Cycle is Accelerating

Nature, 23 February 2022 Climate change, in part by causing an increase of meltwater flowing off ice sheets into the…

4 years ago

Rising Seas, Flooding and Erosion Threaten African Heritage Sites

Nature Climate Change, 10 February 2022 This study offers the first comprehensive assessment of the exposure of African cultural and…

4 years ago

Rising Air Temperatures Break Up Larsen B Sea Ice from Antarctic Peninsula

NASA Earth Observatory, 2 February 2022 Rising air temperatures and increasingly wet weather caused a large region of sea ice…

4 years ago

Newly Observed Ice Loss Mechanism May Cause Extremely High Melt Rate on Greenland

Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, 8 March 2022 Surface meltwater heats up as it passes down through cracks…

4 years ago

Regional Cooling “Blue Blob” in North Atlantic Slows Melting of Iceland’s Glaciers

Geophysical Research Letters, 24 January 2022 A patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic Ocean – nicknamed the…

4 years ago

COP-26 Video of the Week: Past is Present: Why 1.5°C is the Ice Sheet Temperature Limit, with Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton

For a look at ice sheet behavior over the past several million years, in response to CO2 and warming levels…

4 years ago

Antarctic Flowering Plants Growing and Spreading at Unprecedented Rates

Current Biology, 14 February 2022 Antarctica’s two native flowering plants - pearlwort and hairgrass - have experienced unprecedented growth over…

4 years ago

Seawater Can Intrude Even Under “Grounded” Ice to Accelerate Ice Sheet Retreat

The Cryosphere, 8 February 2022 New modeling suggests that warm seawater can slip underneath grounded ice sheets -- ice resting…

4 years ago