Warm Water Slowed Formation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Communications Earth & Environment, 21 February 2022 New evidence suggests the presence of warm, deep water delayed the expansion of…

Arctic Council Suspends Work Due to Invasion of Ukraine

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On March 3, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States issued the following joint…

Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss Increases the “Atlantification” of the Fram Strait

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 18 February 2022 The Fram Strait is the main waterway connecting the central Arctic Ocean…

Driven by Meltwater and Rising Temperatures, the Global Water Cycle is Accelerating

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Nature, 23 February 2022 Climate change, in part by causing an increase of meltwater flowing off ice sheets into the…

Rising Seas, Flooding and Erosion Threaten African Heritage Sites

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Nature Climate Change, 10 February 2022 This study offers the first comprehensive assessment of the exposure of African cultural and…

Rising Air Temperatures Break Up Larsen B Sea Ice from Antarctic Peninsula

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NASA Earth Observatory, 2 February 2022 Rising air temperatures and increasingly wet weather caused a large region of sea ice…

Newly Observed Ice Loss Mechanism May Cause Extremely High Melt Rate on Greenland

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Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, 8 March 2022 Surface meltwater heats up as it passes down through cracks…

Regional Cooling “Blue Blob” in North Atlantic Slows Melting of Iceland’s Glaciers

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Geophysical Research Letters, 24 January 2022 A patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic Ocean – nicknamed the…

COP-26 Video of the Week: Past is Present: Why 1.5°C is the Ice Sheet Temperature Limit, with Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton

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For a look at ice sheet behavior over the past several million years, in response to CO2 and warming levels…

Antarctic Flowering Plants Growing and Spreading at Unprecedented Rates

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Current Biology, 14 February 2022 Antarctica’s two native flowering plants - pearlwort and hairgrass - have experienced unprecedented growth over…

Seawater Can Intrude Even Under “Grounded” Ice to Accelerate Ice Sheet Retreat

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The Cryosphere, 8 February 2022 New modeling suggests that warm seawater can slip underneath grounded ice sheets -- ice resting…

Evidence of Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss Despite Sub-freezing Surface Temperatures

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Geology, 11 February 2022 New research resolves a long-standing discrepancy between marine records from the Ross Sea, which indicate complete…

Mount Everest’s Highest Glacier Losing Decades’ Worth of Ice Every Year

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NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3 February 2022 The South Col Glacier next to the peak of Mount Everest has…

Glacier Retreat Has Increased Seven-Fold in Western Canada Since 2010

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Remote Sensing of Environment, 7 January 2022 The compounding effects of climate change are particularly evident in Western Canada, where…