Cryosphere Capsules

Thresholds of Irreversible Retreat Identified on Major Portion of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

The Cryosphere, March 25 Located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Pine Island is currently the fastest melting glacier in…

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Lightning Strikes Triple in the Arctic – Possible Source of Increased Wildfires

Geophysical Research Letters, March 22 Lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially a source of increasing wildfires, tripled from 2010 to…

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Evidence of Complete Greenland Ice Sheet Loss During Relatively Recent Interglacial

The Cryosphere, March 18 Sediment at the bottom of the Camp Century ice core, collected 120 km from the coast…

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Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wetting Reduces Permafrost Thaw from Global Warming

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 10 The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest and most extensive permafrost region in the…

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Extreme Meltwater Conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula’s Largest Remaining Ice Shelf

The Cryosphere, February 25 During 2019-2020, surface melt duration and extent on the George VI Ice Shelf hit record-breaking highs,…

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Snow Depth and Duration Rapidly Decreasing Across the Entire European Alps

The Cryosphere, March 18 The first Alpine-wide analysis of snow trends, based on in situ measurements from six Alpine countries…

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Acceleration of Western Arctic Sea Ice Loss Linked to Warming Pacific Air Currents

Nature Communications, March 9 The western Arctic – located north of Alaska and Canada – has seen the fastest sea…

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Future Increase in Glacial Lakes in Himalayas and Central Asia

Journal of Glaciology, March 2 This new inventory of potential future lakes detected more than 25,000 “overdeepenings” (valleys gouged into…

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Sea-level Rise by 2100 Could Exceed IPCC Projections Under High Emissions Scenarios

One Earth, December 18, 2020 In relation to the above work on Antarctic sea-level rise, this late 2020 paper by…

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Projections of Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss by 2100 Using CMIP6 Models for IPCC AR6

The Cryosphere, February 26 The contribution of Antarctica to global sea level rise by 2100 varies widely based on the…

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