Latest Research

Huge Pathways of Warm Water Found Under Major Antarctic Glacier

New maps collected under the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier and further offshore reveal deep (> 1000 m) and wide…

6 years ago

2020 Arctic Fires Already One-third Higher Than 2019 Record High

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, September 3 Arctic fire emissions – those directly caused by humans, as well as those from…

6 years ago

Majority of Antarctic Ice Shelves Sensitive to Meltwater Fracturing

Nature, August 26 Antarctic ice shelves - floating ice in contact with land ice - are both critical to maintaining ice…

6 years ago

Earlier Spring Rain on Arctic Sea Ice Accelerates Loss

The Cryosphere, August 28 Rain events on some portions of the Arctic Ocean have occurred nearly 4-6 days earlier for…

6 years ago

Rapid Worldwide Growth in Glacial Lakes and Risk of Outburst Floods

Nature Climate Change, August 31 The global volume of glacier lakes increased 48% between 1990 and 2018, to 156.5 km3,…

6 years ago

Ice Sheet Loss from Greenland and Antarctica Track Worst-case IPCC AR5 Projections

Nature Climate Change, August 31   The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have increased global sea level by 12.3 mm…

6 years ago

Massive Amounts of Ice Loss in the Cryosphere

The Cryosphere Discussion/Review, August 14 A paper placed in open review notes that the cryosphere globally has lost a total…

6 years ago

Reconstruction of Sea-level Rise Sources Closes the “Sea-level Budget”

Nature, August 19 For the first time, researchers have been able to close the “sea-level budget” (relative sources of sea-level…

6 years ago

Unexpected Basal Ocean Melting in East Antarctica

Nature Communications, August 24 The floating Shirase Ice Tongue (a long and narrow projection of ice, connected an ice basin…

6 years ago

Satellite Data Confirms Accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet Loss

Nature, August 20   The Greenland Ice Sheet lost a record-breaking 532 (± 58 Gt) of ice in 2019, up around 200 Gt in the…

6 years ago