Nature, 21 February 2024 Rising temperatures have caused the disappearance of many "pinning points" which anchor ice shelves to the…
Science Advances, 9 February 2024 This paper identifies early warning signs for collapse of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation).…
Climate change poses a severe threat to Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems, from sea ice loss to warming waters and…
Nature Geoscience, 8 February 2024 Scientists have uncovered for the first time direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet…
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 8 February 2024 This review paper brought together an international team of 29 ice sheet…
Following up on two companion papers printed in the Journal of Climate last week, this presentation by lead author Dr.…
Journal of Climate, 1 February 2024 A team of five dozen scientists from fourteen countries unraveled the dynamics and impacts…
NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4 December 2023 A similar atmospheric river swept intense heat and rainfall across the Antarctic…
This side event features Dr. Jonathan Wille, ETH Zurich, lead author of the two companion papers summarized above. He volunteered…
News Briefing: 26 January 2024 Mirroring the “snow drought” that struck western North America, mountains across the Hindu Kush Himalaya…
Nature, 10 January 2024 This study contained two major findings: first, human-driven fossil fuel emissions have significantly reduced snowpack across…
The snow and ice of the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains supply seasonal freshwater to river basins that serve billions of…
Nature, 17 January 2024 New measurements reveal that the Greenland Ice Sheet lost 20% more ice over the past four…
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing ice; and have the potential to undergo rapid and self-sustaining retreat…
Nature Climate Change, 4 December 2023 The massive Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica underwent a fifty-year period of “marine…