Year-round Disappearance of Arctic Sea Ice Before 2100 Under New High Emissions Scenarios

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Environmental Research Letters, October 7   The Arctic Ocean will reach an essentially ice-free state year-round (i.e., fully navigable) under…

Ice-rich Permafrost Fuels Arctic Fires

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Nature Geoscience commentary, September 28 More than half of 2020’s Arctic fires so far this year have occurred in ice-rich…

Greenland Ice Loss Rate On Track to Exceed Holocene (End of Last Ice Age)

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Nature, September 30 Between 2000-2018, the Greenland Ice Sheet lost ice mass at the rate of 6100 billion tons of…

Glacier Mass Loss Doubles in Easternmost Tian Shan Since 1972

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Journal of Glaciology, Sept 23 Glacier mass loss has doubled in the Tian Shan mountains of eastern Central Asia, known…

Mercury Emissions From Permafrost Thaw Could Make Yukon River Fish Inedible

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Nature Communications, September 16 Under high emissions scenarios, additional permafrost thaw would drastically increase mercury concentrations in the Yukon River. …

Freshwater Discharge from Antarctica Shows Major Impacts on Future Climate

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Science Advances, September 23 Under moderate and high emissions scenarios, the discharge of vast amounts of meltwater from the Antarctic…

New Higher Estimates of Ice Loss from Greenland and Antarctica with High Emissions

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The Cryosphere, September 17 Sea-level rise from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets alone could be 39 cm higher by…

Rising Temperatures Lead to Irreversible Ice Loss and Sea-level Rise From Antarctica

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Nature, September 23 The rate and scale of ice loss from Antarctica will increase as temperatures exceed 2°C, according to…

Loss of Snow Cover on Svalbard Glaciers Accelerated Loss Since the mid-1980s.

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Nature Communications, September 14 Most of Svalbard’s glaciers and ice caps have lost the porous snow layer that previously protected…

Antarctica without Ice Shelves Leads to Rapid Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise

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Journal of Glaciology, September 14 Collapse of ice shelves neighbouring the Antarctic Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute 1…

WAIS Ice Shelves Show Early Signs of Irreversible Disintegration

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PNAS, September 14 Extensive open fractures have developed in the ice shelves of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in…

New Destabilizing Arctic Under High Emissions Scenario

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Nature Climate Change, September 14 The Arctic is at high risk of undergoing a rapid state change away from a…

Sundown on the Arctic

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September 22, at 15:30CEST/ 9:30AMEDT marks the autumn equinox, when the sun finally will go down on an Arctic summer…

Warmer Atlantic and More Storms Decrease Sea Ice North of Svalbard

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Journal of Geophysical Research, July 11 On the other side of the Arctic, an earlier study this summer found that winter…

2018 Bering Sea Winter Sea Ice Lowest in At Least 5500 Years

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Science Advances, September 2 Summer sea ice minimums receive the most attention; but Arctic sea ice has been declining year-round,…