Reconstruction of Sea-level Rise Sources Closes the “Sea-level Budget”

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Nature, August 19 For the first time, researchers have been able to close the “sea-level budget” (relative sources of sea-level…

Unexpected Basal Ocean Melting in East Antarctica

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Nature Communications, August 24 The floating Shirase Ice Tongue (a long and narrow projection of ice, connected an ice basin…

Satellite Data Confirms Accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet Loss

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Nature, August 20   The Greenland Ice Sheet lost a record-breaking 532 (± 58 Gt) of ice in 2019, up around 200 Gt in the…

Ice Mass Loss from Greenland Will Continue Even After Stabilized

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Nature, Communications Earth & Environment, August 13 Acceleration of outlet glaciers from the Greenland ice sheet, not compensated by accumulation…

Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves

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Nature Geoscience, August 10 Between 1994 and 2018, Antarctic ice shelves (floating ice connected to the land-based Antarctic ice sheet)…

Emissions from Thawing Peatland Permafrost 30-50% Greater than Previous Estimates

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 10 Under high emissions scenarios, northern hemisphere permafrost and peatlands will show…

Arctic Sea Ice More Sensitive to Emissions: Ice-Free Arctic During Last Interglacial Points to Rapid Future Loss

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Nature Climate Change, August 10 The Arctic Ocean could be seasonally ice-free at temperatures only slightly above today’s, once land-based…

New Global Estimate of Rock-Debris Cover on Glaciers Helps Improve Projections of Glacier Melt and Sea Level Rise

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Nature Geoscience, August 3 An updated approach is required to estimate the melting of global glaciers due to rock debris…

Extreme Glacier Loss in New Zealand Undeniably Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change

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Nature Climate Change, August 3 In New Zealand’s Southern Alps, anthropogenic forcing has made extreme loss of glacier ice at…

Canadian Ice Shelf Collapse in the Canadian Arctic, and Glacier Collapse in the Alps

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Water and Ice Research Laboratory, August 7 This extremely warm summer is driving some dramatic collapses: one of the last…

Emissions To-date Consistent with Worst-Case Scenario for Global Warming

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 3 Despite recent progress on bending the emissions curve and the global…

Loss of Outdoor Ice Skating in Coming Decades

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The Canadian Geographer, July 16 Outdoor ice-skating is an important cultural pastime in many northern regions and holds a firm…

Arctic Ocean Experiences Significant Shifts in its Ecological Structure

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Science, July 10 Growth of phytoplankton biomass in the Arctic Ocean increased by 57% between 1998 and 2018. This surge…

Increased Episodic Flooding by 2100 Under High Emissions Scenarios

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Scientific Reports, July 30 Under the high emissions RCP8.5 scenario, and with no adaptation such as sea walls or inland…

Current Arctic Warming Closer to Past Abrupt Climate Events than Models

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Nature, July 29 Over the past 40 years, the rate of change in large portions of the Arctic appears comparable…