Cryosphere Capsules

COP-26 Video of the Week: Triple Threat to Polar Oceans with Carol Turley, Helen Findley, Sian Henley, Rolf Rødven and Anne Nuorgam

The Arctic and Southern Oceans play a key role in regulating the global climate, but are under serious threat from…

4 years ago

Rising Temperatures Double Glacier Loss in the Russian High Arctic

The Cryosphere, 6 January 2022 Glaciers in the Russian High Arctic lost twice as much ice between 2010 and 2017…

4 years ago

Decline in Salmon Size Signals Potentially Significant Fisheries and Ecosystem Shift in the North Atlantic

Science Advances, 4 March 2022 In 2005, a sudden reduction in the transport of Arctic water into the Norwegian Sea…

4 years ago

Warm Water Slowed Formation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Communications Earth & Environment, 21 February 2022 New evidence suggests the presence of warm, deep water delayed the expansion of…

4 years ago

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