COP29 Video of the Week: Vanishing Sea Ice – What It Means for Our Oceans and Ecosystems

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Sea ice is a unique, fundamental, and fragile habitat in the Arctic and Antarctic. Rising temperatures decrease its thickness and…

Greenland Shows Increase in Cracking that May Speed Ice Loss and SLR

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Nature Geoscience, 03 February 2025 New satellite mapping models have revealed increases in both the size and depth of large…

30-40% of Arctic Permafrost Now a Net Source of Emissions

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Nature Climate Change, 21 January 2025 Arctic tundra, forests, wetlands and permafrost store large quantities of carbon emissions, but new…

Video of the Week: Understanding West Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise during the Last Interglacial

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Lead author Dr. Eric Wolff from Cambridge University summarized a recent Nature paper on the stability of West Antarctica during…

Previous West Antarctic Ice Loss Indicates Other Sources of Sea-level Rise As Well

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Nature, 29 January 2025 The largest source of uncertainty in the rate and extent of sea-level rise with high emissions…

Rapid Periods of Arctic Sea Ice Loss Driven by More Extreme Cyclones

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Communications Earth & Environment, 22 January 2025 Late summer Arctic sea ice extent has decreased by more than 40% since…

Growing Intense Arctic Marine Heatwaves Linked to Sea Ice Loss

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Nature Climate Change, 6 January 2025 Rising temperatures have increased the frequency of extreme ocean warming events around the world,…

Video of the Week: How the Term “Tipping Points” May Distract from Climate Action

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Dr. Robert Kopp, Rutgers University, summarizes his recent Nature Climate Change paper, which takes issue with the utility of the…

Launch of International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) 2025

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WMO Headquarters in Geneva, 21 January 2025 A high-level launch event at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva on…

40 Years of Pervasive Glacier Retreat Across Svalbard

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Nature Communications, 15 January 2025 Norway's northernmost archipelago, Svalbard, is the most rapidly warming region of the Arctic and experiences…

Svalbard Rapidly Greening as Temperatures Rise

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Communications Earth & Environment, 16 January 2025 Today's rapidly rising temperatures in the Arctic are changing the composition of its…

2024 Global Average Temperature was 1.6°C above Pre-industrial

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Copernicus Climate Change Service, 10 January 2025 The EU's Copernicus Programme has confirmed 2024 as the warmest year on record…

Sea-level Rise and Permafrost Thaw Substantially Increases Arctic Coastal Erosion Rates

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 3 December 2024 Climate change is affecting Arctic shoreline sea-level rise and permafrost…

New Observations Reveal Greater Antarctic Grounding Line Exposure to Warm Waters

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Scientific Reports, 3 January 2025 A new Antarctic-wide measuring project (using gravity inversion for bathymetry) that includes all Antarctic ice…

Video of the Week: “The Arctic Ocean Could Experience its First Ice-free Day Before 2030”

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Summarizing recent results from an Arctic sea ice paper last month on which she was co-author, Dr. Alexandra Jahn from…