Kryosfärkapslar

Global Glaciers Account for One-Fourth of Total Sea Level Rise Since 2010

Geophysical Research Letters, 26 April 2023 Mountain glaciers worldwide have lost 2% of their ice in the past twelve years,…

3 år ago

One-Century Old Black Carbon Particles from Oil, Coal Burning Found in Remote Antarctic Ice

Scientific Reports, 21 April 2023 An ice core from the Antarctic Peninsula contains fine soot particles released from oil and…

3 år ago

COP27 Video of the Week: “Slow Onset, Irreversible Events Beyond Adaptation: Global Stocktake, Implementation and 1.5° Ambition” with Florence Colleoni

Global impacts, especially loss and damage, caused by cryosphere feedbacks from emissions overshoot over 1.5°C will be largely permanent on…

3 år ago

Latest IMBIE Report: Five-fold Increase in Ice Loss from Greenland and Antarctica since the 1990s

Earth System Science Data, 20 April 2023 This week, IMBIE (the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise) released its third…

3 år ago

Warming Atlantic Waters Threaten Previously Stable Greenland Glacier

Nature Communications, 19 April 2023 One of the previously most stable glaciers in Greenland is now retreating at an unprecedented…

3 år ago

Rising Temperatures, Melting Ice Jeopardize World’s Northernmost Research Station

News Briefing: 19 April 2023 Research stations high above the Arctic circle are experiencing record-breaking temperatures that make it increasingly…

3 år ago

COP27 Video of the Week: “Irreversible Impacts of 1.5°C Overshooting on the Cryosphere” with Climate Analytics’ Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Uta Klönne, and Fabien Maussion

Irreversible impacts from cryosphere loss are already visible today due to increasing global warming. Crossing additional cryosphere thresholds will have…

3 år ago

Decreasing Sea Ice Increases Ocean Temperatures and Glacier Melt in West Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters, 21 March 2023 Disappearing sea ice near West Antarctica is sending warm water closer to the continent,…

3 år ago

Rising Temperatures and Antarctic Ice Loss Produce First Sign of Slowing Global Ocean Circulation

Communication Earth & Environment, 13 March 2023 This study combines historical measurements with climate models to reveal that global meridional…

3 år ago

COP27 Video of the Week: “Committed Sea level Rise from Greenland at Today’s 1.1°C” with Jason Box

The Greenland Ice Sheet is three kilometers thick and has the potential to raise global sea levels by seven meters…

3 år ago