Cryosphere Capsules

New ‘COP30’ Video: Governing the Cryosphere Beyond Political Timeframes

Cryosphere systems are nearing irreversible thresholds, yet political processes remain misaligned with the long timescales of ice loss. Using COP30…

4 months ago

Comprehensive Assessment Maps Sea-level Rise Across Africa

Nature Communications, 15 December 2025 Sea-level rise along Africa’s coasts is now occurring four times faster than observed in the…

4 months ago

Narrow Channels on Bottom of Antarctic Ice Shelves Amplify Melting

Nature Climate Change, 9 January 2026 Warm water draining and flowing beneath ice shelves carves channels into the ice, where…

4 months ago

Thawing Permafrost Directly Increases Wildfire Risk and Carbon Emissions

Nature Geoscience, 9 January 2026 As frozen permafrost thaws and the seasonally thawed layer deepens, summers become hotter and drier,…

4 months ago

Polar and Mountain Microbial Communities Depend on a Stable Cryosphere

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5 November 2025 This review summarizes the harmful impacts of snow and ice loss on microbial communities…

4 months ago

COP30 Video of the Week: Educating for the Cryosphere – 5 Years of Lessons Learned and Future Pathways for Impact

Education is a vital lever for climate resilience. This side event presented lessons from five years of implementing the Ocean…

4 months ago

Past Arctic Warming Reveals Greenland Ice Vulnerability at Low Temperature Thresholds

Nature Geoscience, 24 November 2025 The Prudhoe Dome ice cap in northern Greenland completely melted 7,000 years ago and was…

5 months ago

Today’s Emissions Choices Cause Stark Differences in Future Sea-Level Rise from Antarctica

Nature Communications, 5 December 2025 Very high emissions will trigger large-scale Antarctic ice sheet retreat over coming centuries, while net-zero…

5 months ago

COP30 Video of the Week: Warming of 1.5°C is Too High for Polar Ice Sheets

Ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s. This has raised concerns about their…

5 months ago

Happy Cryosphere 2026

Thank You for 2025! From the launch of the International Year of Glaciers Preservation during January and March in Geneva,…

5 months ago