Kryosfärkapslar

Low Emissions Key to Limiting Sea-level Rise from West Antarctica

Nature Communications, 23 April 2024 Weakened deep ocean mixing and sea ice loss could tip currently stable regions of West…

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Melting Ice Shelves Trigger Relentless Cycle of West Antarctic Ice Loss

Science Advances, 17 April 24 Researchers have identified a new positive feedback loop that intensifies ice shelf loss, suggesting that…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Supporting Youth Through Effective Climate Education Policies”

Melting ice has long been a clear visual of our planet’s health. This event addressed the need for effective climate…

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Current and Future Emissions Determine Whether Subsea Arctic Permafrost Remains

Nature Communications, 15 April 2024 The level of future fossil fuel emissions will have a huge impact on whether “subsea”…

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Rising Temperatures Endanger Sea Ice Bracing Large Antarctic Glaciers

The Cryosphere, 10 April 2024 Antarctica's coastline is fringed with sea ice that buttresses large glaciers around the continent, but…

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Extreme Ice Loss from Greenland’s Largest Floating Ice Tongue

The Cryosphere, 22 March 2024 The floating portion (“ice tongue”) of Greenland’s critical 79° North glacier has thinned by one-third…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Why East Antarctica is a ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Sea Level Rise”

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet stores the equivalent of 52 meters of sea-level rise, more than four times greater than…

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Earth’s Most Powerful Ocean Current Sensitive to Global Warming

Nature, 27 March 2024 Sediment records from the past five million years reveal that the massive Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)…

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Coastal Hazards in the Alaskan Arctic Multiply with Sea Ice Loss

Communications Earth & Environment, 30 March 2024 Declining sea ice extent and lengthening open water conditions expose Arctic coastlines to…

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Video of the Week: “Projections of an Ice-Free Arctic Ocean”

Dr. Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder, is the lead author of a recent sea ice paper published in Nature,…

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