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Nature Communications, 21 July 2026 Rising sea levels driven by ocean warming and ice sheet melt are projected to substantially…
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 26 June 2026 East Antarctica has long been considered less vulnerable to ocean-driven ice loss…
Geophysical Research Letters, 9 July 2026 Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is the cold, dense water formed around Antarctica that sinks…
PNAS, 20 July 2026 After several years in the early 2020s when Arctic winter sea ice appeared to stabilize, satellite…
Nature Communications, 16 July 2026 Temporarily exceeding global warming targets increases the risk of long-lasting changes to critical Earth systems,…
Science Advances, 19 June 2026 Including estimates of Greenland Ice Sheet melt in climate models increases the projected weakening of…
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 10 July 2026 As the Antarctic ice sheet and surrounding ice shelves lose ice, they…
Science Advances, 15 April 2026 Climate projections that incorporate real-world ocean observations indicate that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)…
Science Advances, 8 April 2026 Observations from four long-term underwater monitoring arrays in the North Atlantic show evidence of a…
Communications Earth & Environment, 3 February 2026 Increased atmospheric river activity funneling moisture from the tropics, combined with reduced Antarctic…
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7 April 2026 The latest assessment of mountain glaciers by the World Glacier Monitoring Service…
Major losses from Earth’s ice sheets and mountain glaciers can occur at temperatures well below 1.5°C. Lead authors of two…
PNAS, 6 July 2026 Antarctic ice shelves act as natural barriers that slow the flow of land ice into the…
Nature Climate Change, 10 June 2026 Human-driven sea-level rise is transforming once-rare “extreme sea-level events” into more frequent coastal hazards,…