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ICCI releases weekly summaries describing the latest findings in cryosphere research and news. These summaries are known as our Cryosphere…

COP31 Cryosphere Pavilion: Call for Side Events and ECS Volunteers

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Dear Friends of the Cryosphere Pavilion and Cryosphere Capsule Readers! We are happy to announce that the COP31 Cryosphere Pavilion…

Extreme Sea-Level Rise Could Lead to Large-Scale Coastal Relocation in the United Kingdom

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Nature Communications, 21 July 2026 Rising sea levels driven by ocean warming and ice sheet melt are projected to substantially…

East Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt Driven by Warm Surface Ocean Waters

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 26 June 2026 East Antarctica has long been considered less vulnerable to ocean-driven ice loss…

Increasing Decline in Antarctic Bottom Water Volume Since 2000s

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Geophysical Research Letters, 9 July 2026 Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is the cold, dense water formed around Antarctica that sinks…

Record-Low Arctic Winter Sea Ice in 2025 and 2026 Signals Continued Decline

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PNAS, 20 July 2026 After several years in the early 2020s when Arctic winter sea ice appeared to stabilize, satellite…

AMOC Weakening and Permafrost Thaw During Overshoot of the 1.5°C Paris Limit

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Nature Communications, 16 July 2026 Temporarily exceeding global warming targets increases the risk of long-lasting changes to critical Earth systems,…

Greenland Meltwater Increases Future AMOC Weakening

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Science Advances, 19 June 2026 Including estimates of Greenland Ice Sheet melt in climate models increases the projected weakening of…

Ocean Circulation Response to Increasing Antarctic Meltwater

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 10 July 2026 As the Antarctic ice sheet and surrounding ice shelves lose ice, they…

AMOC May Weaken by Around 50% This Century with Even “Moderate” Emissions

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Science Advances, 15 April 2026 Climate projections that incorporate real-world ocean observations indicate that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)…

Increasing Evidence of AMOC Weakening Across the North Atlantic

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Science Advances, 8 April 2026 Observations from four long-term underwater monitoring arrays in the North Atlantic show evidence of a…

Unusually High Snowfall Drives Recent Stabilization in Net Antarctic Ice Mass

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Communications Earth & Environment, 3 February 2026 Increased atmospheric river activity funneling moisture from the tropics, combined with reduced Antarctic…

Global Assessment of Mountain Glacier Loss in 2025

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7 April 2026 The latest assessment of mountain glaciers by the World Glacier Monitoring Service…

Video of the Week: Tipping Points Well Below 1.5°C for Ice Sheets and Glaciers

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Major losses from Earth’s ice sheets and mountain glaciers can occur at temperatures well below 1.5°C. Lead authors of two…

Fractures in West Antarctic Ice Shelves Could Increase Future Sea-level Rise by Fourfold

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PNAS, 6 July 2026 Antarctic ice shelves act as natural barriers that slow the flow of land ice into the…

Sea-level Rise Has Quadrupled the Frequency of Coastal Flooding Extremes Since 1900

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Nature Climate Change, 10 June 2026 Human-driven sea-level rise is transforming once-rare “extreme sea-level events” into more frequent coastal hazards,…