Thank You for 2024! It was wonderful seeing many of you at COP29 in Baku, including at the COP29 Cryosphere…
Geophysical Research Letters, 22 November 2024 Saltwater intrusion into fresh groundwater aquifers is increasingly damaging freshwater agriculture and ecosystems, and…
Sea-level rise results from a combination of several processes, from polar ice sheet loss to mountain glacier melt and more.…
Nature Communications, 10 December 2024 Mountain permafrost makes up 30% of global permafrost area, and helps preserve the stability of…
Geophysical Research Letters, 8 December 2024 Melting Antarctic ice releases freshwater into the Southern Ocean, with profound impacts on regional…
Critical ecosystem stability thresholds are already being crossed in permafrost regions today. These growing impacts will worsen and grow more…
Nature Communications, 3 December 2024 This new study used a range of climate models to predict when we could see…
All side events held at the COP29 Cryosphere Pavilion were livestreamed and saved to ICCI's YouTube channel. They are organized…
Communications Earth & Environment, 17 October 2024 Satellite observations show that the average rate of sea-level rise worldwide has doubled…
The Cryosphere, 8 October 2024 Researchers have linked El Niño events to loss of glacier ice and snow in the Peruvian Andes,…
The Cryosphere, 25 September 2024 Most projections of future sea-level rise deal with timescales of decades (2100), or occasionally to…
Preceding the UNGA high-level General Debate on Sept. 24, this side event brought together cryosphere science and policy voices to…
The Cryosphere, 5 September 2024 Deep fractures in the Greenland Ice Sheet are less likely to refreeze and close at…
Dr. Paul Bierman, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Vermont, summarized his recent paper on ancient soil remains…
Earth's Future, 4 September 2024 An updated model comparison experiment (ISMIP6 Antarctica 2300) has provided the first multi-model and multi-century…