New Observations Reveal Greater Antarctic Grounding Line Exposure to Warm Waters

2 år ago

Scientific Reports, 3 January 2025 A new Antarctic-wide measuring project (using gravity inversion for bathymetry) that includes all Antarctic ice…

Video of the Week: “The Arctic Ocean Could Experience its First Ice-free Day Before 2030”

2 år ago

Summarizing recent results from an Arctic sea ice paper last month on which she was co-author, Dr. Alexandra Jahn from…

Happy Cryosphere New Year!

2 år ago

Thank You for 2024! It was wonderful seeing many of you at COP29 in Baku, including at the COP29 Cryosphere…

Salinization Intensified by Sea-level Rise Will Damage Coastal Watersheds by 2100

2 år ago

Geophysical Research Letters, 22 November 2024 Saltwater intrusion into fresh groundwater aquifers is increasingly damaging freshwater agriculture and ecosystems, and…

COP29 Video of the Week: “Sea Level Changes: Are You Sure You Know Everything About it?”

2 år ago

Sea-level rise results from a combination of several processes, from polar ice sheet loss to mountain glacier melt and more.…

Permafrost in Europe’s Mountains Warmed by More Than 1°C Per Decade

2 år ago

Nature Communications, 10 December 2024 Mountain permafrost makes up 30% of global permafrost area, and helps preserve the stability of…

Following a High Emissions Pathway Could Double Antarctic Freshwater Release into the Ocean by 2100

2 år ago

Geophysical Research Letters, 8 December 2024 Melting Antarctic ice releases freshwater into the Southern Ocean, with profound impacts on regional…

COP29 Video of the Week: “Slow Onset, High Impact: What Permafrost Means for the Global 1.5°C Target”

2 år ago

Critical ecosystem stability thresholds are already being crossed in permafrost regions today. These growing impacts will worsen and grow more…

First Ice-free Day in Arctic Ocean will Occur with Multiple Compounding Events: Earliest within 3 Years but 7-20 Years Most Likely

2 år ago

Nature Communications, 3 December 2024 This new study used a range of climate models to predict when we could see…

COP29 Kryosfärpaviljongens material och inspelningar av sidoevenemang

2 år ago

All side events held at the COP29 Cryosphere Pavilion were livestreamed and saved to ICCI's YouTube channel. They are organized…

Stigningen av den globala havsnivån har fördubblats under de senaste 30 åren

2 år ago

Communications Earth & Environment, 17 October 2024 Satellite observations show that the average rate of sea-level rise worldwide has doubled…

Andinska glaciärförluster kopplade till El Niño

2 år ago

The Cryosphere, 8 October 2024 Researchers have linked El Niño events to loss of glacier ice and snow in the Peruvian Andes,…

High Emissions May Result in 40m Committed Sea-level Rise from Antarctica over Millennia: Need for Stronger NDCs Today

2 år ago

The Cryosphere, 25 September 2024 Most projections of future sea-level rise deal with timescales of decades (2100), or occasionally to…

NYC Climate Week Video: “Beyond the Ice: The Worldwide Impacts of Arctic Extremes”

2 år ago

Preceding the UNGA high-level General Debate on Sept. 24, this side event brought together cryosphere science and policy voices to…

Worsening Fractures in the Greenland Ice Sheet Could Increase Future Sea Level Rise

2 år ago

The Cryosphere, 5 September 2024 Deep fractures in the Greenland Ice Sheet are less likely to refreeze and close at…