Video of the Week: UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

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"Polar Oceans: Engine to the Global Ocean” June 2022 This side event at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) last week…

Rising Temperatures Produced a Deadly Glacier Collapse in Italy

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News Briefing: 4 July 2022 At least seven people were killed and fourteen are missing after a glacial ice shelf…

Intensification of Westerly Winds Surrounding Antarctica Increases Ice Loss

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Communications Earth & Environment, 22 June 2022 The Southern Annular Mode, or SAM, is a belt of strong air currents…

Fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf Likely Within the Next Decade

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The Cryosphere, 27 June 2022 The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is the only floating extension of Thwaites Glacier that remains…

COP26 Video of the Week: “Elevating Adaptation Action: From the Alps to the Andes to the Hindu Kush Himalaya” with ICIMOD

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This COP26 session offers policy and youth perspectives on needed climate actions; highlighting ways in which policy makers and researchers…

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…