The Arctic and Southern Oceans are under serious threat from warming, acidification, freshening, and ice loss. These changes are already…
AGU Journals: Earth’s Future, 26 April 2024 The iconic East Rongbuk Glacier on Mount Everest’s north slope might lose two-thirds…
Scientific Reports, 9 May 2024 Small mountain glaciers in Alaska release high levels of methane gas in their meltwater runoff,…
Dr. Gabrielle Kleber, an Early Career Scientist at the COP28 Cryosphere Pavilion, published a major paper in July 2023 on…
Nature Communications, 23 April 2024 Weakened deep ocean mixing and sea ice loss could tip currently stable regions of West…
Science Advances, 17 April 24 Researchers have identified a new positive feedback loop that intensifies ice shelf loss, suggesting that…
Melting ice has long been a clear visual of our planet’s health. This event addressed the need for effective climate…
Nature Communications, 15 April 2024 The level of future fossil fuel emissions will have a huge impact on whether “subsea”…
The Cryosphere, 10 April 2024 Antarctica's coastline is fringed with sea ice that buttresses large glaciers around the continent, but…
The Cryosphere, 22 March 2024 The floating portion (“ice tongue”) of Greenland’s critical 79° North glacier has thinned by one-third…
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet stores the equivalent of 52 meters of sea-level rise, more than four times greater than…
Nature, 27 March 2024 Sediment records from the past five million years reveal that the massive Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)…
Communications Earth & Environment, 30 March 2024 Declining sea ice extent and lengthening open water conditions expose Arctic coastlines to…
Dr. Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder, is the lead author of a recent sea ice paper published in Nature,…
Dear Cryosphere Capsule readers, We would like to share with you a recording of the last "Arctic 21" meeting. This…