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East Antarctica Hits 28°C Above Normal During Current Heatwave

News Briefing, 2 August 2024 East Antarctica is currently experiencing a heatwave in the middle of winter of up to…

2 år ago

Video of the Week: “Unraveling the March 2022 Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica”

In this presentation given during an "Arctic 21" science-policy briefing earlier this year, Dr. Jonathan Wille decodes the record-busting March…

2 år ago

Cooling Effect of Both Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Declining Along with Ice Extent

Geophysical Research Letters, 17 July 2024 Arctic sea ice has been called the "Earth's refrigerator," cooling the planet by reflecting…

2 år ago

Growing Andean Glacier Loss Increases Likelihood of Future Water Scarcity

The Cryosphere, 22 May 2024 Glacier volume has decreased by 8% across the Andes since 2010, with snow and ice…

2 år ago

Video of the Week: “From Alaska to the Andes: Increasing Glacier Loss Across the Americas”

Dr. Bethan Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Newcastle University in the UK, and on July 11…

2 år ago

Continued Glacier Ice Loss from Alaska’s Juneau Ice Field Now Largely Locked In

Nature Communications, 2 July 2024 The massive Juneau Icefield in Alaska contains more than one thousand glaciers and has rapidly…

2 år ago

Increasing Glacier Loss Across the Andes Since the Little Ice Age

Geophysical Research Letters, 30 June 2024 Tropical glaciers in the Andes are now losing ice up to 10 times faster…

2 år ago

COP28 Video of the Week: “Global Glacier Loss Projections” with David Rounce

From the high latitudes to mountain regions, the world's glaciers are responding faster than expected to fossil fuel emissions. This…

2 år ago

“Every Tenth of a Degree” Pushes Antarctica Closer to Potential New Threshold

Nature Geoscience, 25 June 2024 Modelers have long theorized about processes that might account for the unusually rapid sea-level rise…

2 år ago

Impact of Sea-Level Rise on U.S. Infrastructure through 2050 Mapped by New Report

News Briefing, 25 June 2024 Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that nearly three million people live…

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