Cryosphere Capsules

Special Edition: Catastrophic Irreversible Rates of Sea-level Rise from Antarctica if Current NDCs Don’t Improve

Summary: Allowing global temperatures to rise above 2°C compared to pre-industrial significantly increases the risk of triggering unstoppable Antarctic ice…

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Reduced Black Carbon Emissions with Covid-19 Slowed Himalayan Melt and Increased Water Security

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 18 Research into the impact of black carbon has long noted the…

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Global Glacier Loss Rates Greatly Accelerated Since 2020: Tripling or Quadrupling in Some Regions

Nature, April 28 Between 2000 and 2019, the world’s glaciers lost 267 billion tons of ice per year – equivalent…

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Projected Warming of Water Surrounding Antarctic Ice Shelves

Geophysical Research Letters, April 18 The ocean around the base of Antarctica will continue to warm under future emission scenarios,…

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Extreme Melt Season Ice Layers May Increase Meltwater Runoff from Greenland

Nature Communications, April 20 Surface meltwater run-off currently dominates ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Porous layers of…

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Warm Surface Water “Bends” and Fractures Portions of West Antarctic Ice Shelf

Geophysical Research Letters, April 11 Although loss from Antarctica’s ice shelves is dominated by large calving events; smaller, more frequent…

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Surface Melt and Runoff at Higher Temperatures Increases Chance of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

Geophysical Research Letters, April 8 Loss of Antarctic ice shelves – projections of ice off the main Antarctic Ice Sheet…

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High Temperatures and Sea Ice Disintegration Leads to Acidification Hot Spots off Greenland

Nature Communications Earth & Environment, April 12 Some of the last remnants of thicker multi-year sea ice occur along the…

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Large Antarctic Ice Shelf Increasingly Destabilized as Temperatures Rise

Nature Communications, March 31 A potentially irreversible tipping point in Antarctica’s large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (approximately the size of California)…

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Arctic Sea Ice Loss Fuels Extreme European Snowfall

Nature Geoscience, April 1 The loss of Arctic sea ice directly contributed to the extreme snowfall and freezing across Europe…

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