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Accelerating Future Ice Loss for Svalbard Glaciers

Journal of Glaciology, February 17 Although several southern glaciers on Svalbard have retreated significantly in recent decades, the amount of…

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Experts Estimate of Carbon Emissions from Subsea Permafrost

Environmental Research Letters, December 22 Emissions from subsea permafrost – existing in near-coastal waters, mostly inundated at the end of…

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Catastrophic Indian Flood Appears Caused by Landslide, Not Glacier Collapse

Preliminary analysis of satellite images reveals that the massive, catastrophic floods in the Chamoli region of northern India last weekend…

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Increased Outburst Flood Hazard in Peru from Climate Warming and Glacier Retreat

Nature, February 4 Over the past 140 years, the Cordillera Blanca region of the Peruvian Andes has warmed by 1°C,…

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Massive Glacier in East Antarctica Shows Signs of Vulnerability

The Cryosphere, February 11 The massive Denman Glacier in East Antarctica, a 19 km-wide stream of ice that flows over…

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New Evidence of a Freshwater Arctic Ocean Covered by Thick Ice

Nature, February 3 During the two most recent ice ages, the Arctic Ocean was almost completely isolated from the rest…

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IPCC Projections of 2100 Sea-level Rise May Be Too Conservative

Ocean Science, February 2 Ice sheets and oceans take centuries to fully respond to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations and…

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Heightened Risk of Episodic Flooding and Water Shortages in the Himalayan Region

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, February 2 Glacier melt and meltwater run-off in the Himalayan region will likely peak in…

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Mineral Phosphorus Accelerates Surface Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Nature Communications, January 25 Glacier ice algae blooms on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet form a dark layer…

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New Measurements Show Greater Warming of the Southern Ocean

Nature Communications, January 21 New analysis of a rare time series of temperature data, collected over 25 years aboard the…

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