Cryosphere Capsules

Ice-rich Permafrost Fuels Arctic Fires

Nature Geoscience commentary, September 28 More than half of 2020’s Arctic fires so far this year have occurred in ice-rich…

6 years ago

Greenland Ice Loss Rate On Track to Exceed Holocene (End of Last Ice Age)

Nature, September 30 Between 2000-2018, the Greenland Ice Sheet lost ice mass at the rate of 6100 billion tons of…

6 years ago

Glacier Mass Loss Doubles in Easternmost Tian Shan Since 1972

Journal of Glaciology, Sept 23 Glacier mass loss has doubled in the Tian Shan mountains of eastern Central Asia, known…

6 years ago

Mercury Emissions From Permafrost Thaw Could Make Yukon River Fish Inedible

Nature Communications, September 16 Under high emissions scenarios, additional permafrost thaw would drastically increase mercury concentrations in the Yukon River. …

6 years ago

Freshwater Discharge from Antarctica Shows Major Impacts on Future Climate

Science Advances, September 23 Under moderate and high emissions scenarios, the discharge of vast amounts of meltwater from the Antarctic…

6 years ago

New Higher Estimates of Ice Loss from Greenland and Antarctica with High Emissions

The Cryosphere, September 17 Sea-level rise from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets alone could be 39 cm higher by…

6 years ago

Rising Temperatures Lead to Irreversible Ice Loss and Sea-level Rise From Antarctica

Nature, September 23 The rate and scale of ice loss from Antarctica will increase as temperatures exceed 2°C, according to…

6 years ago

Loss of Snow Cover on Svalbard Glaciers Accelerated Loss Since the mid-1980s.

Nature Communications, September 14 Most of Svalbard’s glaciers and ice caps have lost the porous snow layer that previously protected…

6 years ago

Antarctica without Ice Shelves Leads to Rapid Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise

Journal of Glaciology, September 14 Collapse of ice shelves neighbouring the Antarctic Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute 1…

6 years ago

WAIS Ice Shelves Show Early Signs of Irreversible Disintegration

PNAS, September 14 Extensive open fractures have developed in the ice shelves of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in…

6 years ago