2022 Arctic Report Card: Arctic Becoming Warmer, Wetter and with More Extreme Weather

3 years ago

News Briefing: 14 December 2022 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their 17th annual “Arctic Report Card,”…

Diverse Plants and Animals Covered Greenland 2 Million Years Ago at Temperatures that May Be Reached with Continued High Emissions

3 years ago

Nature, 7 December 2022 Ancient DNA frozen in permafrost from northern Greenland reveals that this region was covered in a…

COP27 Video of the Week: “Co-producing Adaptation Strategies to the Climate Crisis in the Arctic” with Susan Natali and Áslat Holmberg

3 years ago

Arctic Indigenous Peoples face a complex landscape of environmental hazards due to climate change. Many Arctic communities are experiencing escalating…

Major Report Released on Mountain Glaciers in World Heritage Sites

3 years ago

News Briefing: 2 November 2022 The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), supported by the International Union for Conservation…

Bering and Chukchi Seas Will Likely Become Too Warm for Seafloor Arctic Species by 2100

3 years ago

Deep Sea Research Part II, 2 December 2022 With continued high CO2 emissions, cold water invertebrates in the Arctic Bering…

COP27 Video of the Week: “Cascading Impacts: How Can We Adapt and Reduce Risk in the Mountains and Downstream?” with Carolina Adler, Arun Shrestha, Christine Kaaya Nakimwero, and Helmut Hojesky

3 years ago

Climate hazards in mountains have compounding negative effects on local ecosystems, with cascading impacts on billions of people downstream and…

Happy International Mountains Day 2022!

3 years ago

In our Cryosphere Capsules this week, we would like to highlight the importance of mountain glaciers and snow on communities…

Greenland’s Northeastern Ice Sheet Thinning Six Times Faster Than Projected

3 years ago

Nature, 9 November 2022 The “ice stream” in Greenland’s largest drainage basin is shrinking and flowing much faster than previously…

Return of the “Cryosphere Capsules” and a COP27 “Cryosphere” Summary

3 years ago

A warm welcome to everyone joining us for the first time after COP27! After daily updates from the Cryosphere Pavilion,…

COP27 Cryosphere Pavilion – November 6-19, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

4 years ago

Welcome to this last "regular" Cryosphere Capsules edition prior to the beginning of COP27 this Sunday, November 6; and running…

Permafrost Thaw Increases Risk and Large Future Costs of Infrastructure on the Third Pole

4 years ago

Communications Earth & Environment, 13 October 2022 Limiting warming below 1.5°C instead of 2°C could reduce the costs of infrastructure…

Ice Sheets Rapidly Expelling Meltwater Can Produce Deep Underwater Valleys on Human Timescales

4 years ago

Quaternary Science Reviews, 5 October 2022 During the warm period at the end of the last ice age (20,000 years…

Geneva-Hosted COP-26 Hub Event: “Mountain Water Resources in a Changing Climate”

4 years ago

Released as an online-only event from the Geneva Hub, this session discusses the importance of revising water governance strategies to…

Unprecedented and Extreme Surface Melt of Greenland in September

4 years ago

News Briefing: NSIDC Greenland Ice Sheet Today, September 2022 An early September heat wave swept across Greenland during the first…

Arctic Ocean Acidifying Three to Four Times Faster Than Other Oceans

4 years ago

Science, 29 September 2022 Rapid loss of Arctic sea ice over the past three decades has accelerated the rate of…