Pam Pearson

Reduced Black Carbon Emissions with Covid-19 Slowed Himalayan Melt and Increased Water Security

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 18 Research into the impact of black carbon has long noted the…

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Global Glacier Loss Rates Greatly Accelerated Since 2020: Tripling or Quadrupling in Some Regions

Nature, April 28 Between 2000 and 2019, the world’s glaciers lost 267 billion tons of ice per year – equivalent…

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Projected Warming of Water Surrounding Antarctic Ice Shelves

Geophysical Research Letters, April 18 The ocean around the base of Antarctica will continue to warm under future emission scenarios,…

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Extreme Melt Season Ice Layers May Increase Meltwater Runoff from Greenland

Nature Communications, April 20 Surface meltwater run-off currently dominates ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Porous layers of…

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Warm Surface Water “Bends” and Fractures Portions of West Antarctic Ice Shelf

Geophysical Research Letters, April 11 Although loss from Antarctica’s ice shelves is dominated by large calving events; smaller, more frequent…

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Surface Melt and Runoff at Higher Temperatures Increases Chance of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

Geophysical Research Letters, April 8 Loss of Antarctic ice shelves – projections of ice off the main Antarctic Ice Sheet…

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High Temperatures and Sea Ice Disintegration Leads to Acidification Hot Spots off Greenland

Nature Communications Earth & Environment, April 12 Some of the last remnants of thicker multi-year sea ice occur along the…

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Large Antarctic Ice Shelf Increasingly Destabilized as Temperatures Rise

Nature Communications, March 31 A potentially irreversible tipping point in Antarctica’s large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (approximately the size of California)…

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Arctic Sea Ice Loss Fuels Extreme European Snowfall

Nature Geoscience, April 1 The loss of Arctic sea ice directly contributed to the extreme snowfall and freezing across Europe…

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Thresholds of Irreversible Retreat Identified on Major Portion of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

The Cryosphere, March 25 Located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Pine Island is currently the fastest melting glacier in…

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Lightning Strikes Triple in the Arctic – Possible Source of Increased Wildfires

Geophysical Research Letters, March 22 Lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially a source of increasing wildfires, tripled from 2010 to…

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Evidence of Complete Greenland Ice Sheet Loss During Relatively Recent Interglacial

The Cryosphere, March 18 Sediment at the bottom of the Camp Century ice core, collected 120 km from the coast…

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Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wetting Reduces Permafrost Thaw from Global Warming

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 10 The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest and most extensive permafrost region in the…

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Extreme Meltwater Conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula’s Largest Remaining Ice Shelf

The Cryosphere, February 25 During 2019-2020, surface melt duration and extent on the George VI Ice Shelf hit record-breaking highs,…

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Snow Depth and Duration Rapidly Decreasing Across the Entire European Alps

The Cryosphere, March 18 The first Alpine-wide analysis of snow trends, based on in situ measurements from six Alpine countries…

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