Sundown on the Arctic

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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

Large Reduction in Glaciers Under High Emissions Scenario in Central Himalayas

6 years ago

Journal of Glaciology, August 26 Up to 85% of the glaciers found in the Koshi River Basin could disappear by 2100…

Huge Pathways of Warm Water Found Under Major Antarctic Glacier

6 years ago

New maps collected under the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier and further offshore reveal deep (> 1000 m) and wide…

2020 Arctic Fires Already One-third Higher Than 2019 Record High

6 years ago

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, September 3 Arctic fire emissions – those directly caused by humans, as well as those from…

Majority of Antarctic Ice Shelves Sensitive to Meltwater Fracturing

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Nature, August 26 Antarctic ice shelves - floating ice in contact with land ice - are both critical to maintaining ice…

Earlier Spring Rain on Arctic Sea Ice Accelerates Loss

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The Cryosphere, August 28 Rain events on some portions of the Arctic Ocean have occurred nearly 4-6 days earlier for…

Rapid Worldwide Growth in Glacial Lakes and Risk of Outburst Floods

6 years ago

Nature Climate Change, August 31 The global volume of glacier lakes increased 48% between 1990 and 2018, to 156.5 km3,…

Ice Sheet Loss from Greenland and Antarctica Track Worst-case IPCC AR5 Projections

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Nature Climate Change, August 31   The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have increased global sea level by 12.3 mm…

Massive Amounts of Ice Loss in the Cryosphere

6 years ago

The Cryosphere Discussion/Review, August 14 A paper placed in open review notes that the cryosphere globally has lost a total…

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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