Recent Wildfires in Northeastern Russia Hit Record-Breaking Emissions Levels

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Copernicus Biogeosciences, July 14 Total carbon emissions from widespread wildfires in northeastern Russia reached an all-time record high already in…

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Release of WG1 Report: The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change

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Link to SPM: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/ IPCC Press Conference and Release of Report, live at 10AM CEST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z149vLKn9d8&ab_channel=IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange%28IPCC%29 The IPCC on Friday,…

Patterns of Permafrost Thaw in Central Alaska: Tussock and Spruce Ecosystems May Be Protective

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The Cryosphere, August 3 Permafrost with high levels of frozen organic carbon has been warming and degrading in many mixed-forest…

Record Winter Winds This Year Accelerated Loss of Thicker and Older Arctic Sea Ice

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Nature Communications Earth & Environment, August 3 Newly emerging strong winds in the Beaufort Sea region may cause unusually high…

Thawing Permafrost Releases Unanticipated Reservoirs of “Fossil” Methane

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 10 Two regions of Siberian permafrost seem to be releasing methane that…

Vulnerability of High Arctic Indigenous Communities and Ecosystems to Rising Ocean Temperatures

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Nature Communications, July 22 On our present climate trajectory, the North Water ecosystem (NOW), a unique open-water ecosystem surrounded by…

Past Abrupt Climate Warming Shows Cascading Impacts in Just Decades, but Persisting for Centuries

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Nature Geoscience, July 29 This review paper assesses abrupt changes in climate over the past 30,000 years, and finds that…

Accelerating Glacier Ice Loss in the Russian Arctic from Current Atmospheric and Oceanic Warming

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Journal of Geophysical Research, June 30 Glaciers across the Russian Arctic are losing accelerating amounts of ice each year, especially…

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Far More Rapid and Extensive than Projected Using Best-fit Models

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Nature Communications Earth & Environment, July 15 Model-based projections of Arctic sea ice extent have traditionally lagged behind real-world observations,…

Warm Ocean Water Accelerating Melt Rate of Langhovde Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

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Nature Communications, July 9 The Langhovde ice shelf, 3 km wide is a relatively (for Antarctica) small ice shelf on…

WAIS Collapse Not Prevented by Earth Surface Rebound Under High Emissions

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, June 18 When an ice sheet loses mass, the pressure it exerts on the…

Floating River Ice Channels Correspond to Sections of Thawing Riverbed Permafrost

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Frontiers Earth Science, July 6 The ice resting on top of unfrozen river water – known as “floating” or “serpentine”…

Loss of Barents-Kara Sea Ice in Arctic May Cause Higher Eurasian Warming in Winter

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Geophysical Research Letters, June 16 Winter sea ice loss in the Barents-Kara seas, north of Norway and western Siberia, causes…

Loss of Glacier Mass in Recent Years Across All of High Mountain Asia

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Nature Communications, July 5 This satellite study confirms that the rate of glacier ice loss has substantially increased in seven…

Increase in Subsurface Lakes Under the Greenland Ice Sheet

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The Cryosphere, June 29 Across the entire Greenland Ice Sheet, the extent of meltwater reservoirs hidden underneath layers of packed…