Rising Temperatures and Decreased Snowpack Jeopardize Water Supplies Across the Western US

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News Briefing: 14 June 2022 As the western United States endures a multi-year drought exacerbated by decreased seasonal snowpack most…

Extreme Heatwave in the Central Andes Accelerates the Melting of Glaciers

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News Briefing: 13 June 2022 An intense heatwave earlier this year removed more than 90% of the snow cover in…

Rapid Loss of Peruvian Glaciers Threatens Freshwater Availability for Millions

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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, June 2022 Glacier retreat could reduce water availability during the “dry season” in Peru by…

Video of the Week: Bonn UNFCCC Inter-sessional Meetings – Carbon Emissions from the “Country of Permafrost”: A Top-10 Emitter for the Global Stocktake

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For the first Global Stocktake process under the Paris Agreement, a group of cryosphere research groups made a submission, not…

New Indicators of Permafrost Thaw in Alaska

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Nature Geoscience, 6 June 2022 The formation of taliks – unfrozen ground surrounded by permafrost – is an important mechanism…

Expanding Surface Rivers on Greenland Ice Sheet Accelerate Melting

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Nature Climate Change, 16 June 2022 Runoff areas for rivers on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet expanded by…

Newly Released Temperature Data Make the Barents Arctic Earth’s Fastest-warming Region

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Scientific Reports, 15 June 2022 New data from the North Barents Sea area show annual average temperatures have increased by…

Video of the Week: Press Conference from Bonn UNFCCC Inter-sessional Meetings: “Antarctica and Potentially Extreme Future Sea Level Rise” with Dr. Robert DeConto

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At the Research Dialogues session of the UNFCCC meetings SB56 in Bonn last week, IPCC SROCC Lead Author Rob DeConto…

Rising Temperatures Threaten the Southern Ocean’s Ability to Absorb Carbon and Slow Climate Change

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Nature Communications, 14 June 2022 Increased ice loss appears to be reducing the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb and store…

Two Major Antarctic Glaciers Losing Ice at Highest Rate in at least 5,000 Years

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Nature Geoscience, 9 June 2022 Over the past three decades, ice loss has more than doubled from the Thwaites and…

COP-26 Video of the Week: “Life Without Glaciers?” with Bethan Davies, Georg Kaser, Regine Hock, and Christian Huggel

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Through concrete examples from three continents — the Tarim Basin, the northern Andes and the Alps — this COP26 side…

Increased Plant Growth in European Alps Increases Warming and Ice Loss

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Science, 2 June 2022 Over the past four decades, three-quarters of the European Alps above the tree line have experienced…

Meltwater Seeping Below Massive High Latitude Glaciers Increases Rate of Ice Loss

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The Cryosphere, 21 April 2022 The large, very thick marine-terminating glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic appear more vulnerable to…

Increased Flow of Warm Atlantic Waters Accelerating Arctic Sea Ice Loss

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Geophysical Research Letters Oceans, 28 May 2022 Rising temperatures have increased the frequency of winter melt events across the Arctic.…

COP-26 Video of the Week: “West Antarctica: Getz on the Run” with Heather Selley and Bryony Freer

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The Getz region of West Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing rate. A recent study using satellite data found…