High-Elevation Permafrost More Vulnerable to Rising Temperatures than Arctic Permafrost

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Nature Communications, 14 March 2022 Even at current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, 60% of high-elevation “alpine” permafrost and 20%…

Tipping Point for Permafrost Peatlands Sooner Than Expected

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Nature Climate Change, 14 March 2022 Large expanses of northern Europe and western Siberia may become too warm and wet…

COP-26 Video of the Week: Triple Threat to Polar Oceans with Carol Turley, Helen Findley, Sian Henley, Rolf Rødven and Anne Nuorgam

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The Arctic and Southern Oceans play a key role in regulating the global climate, but are under serious threat from…

Rising Temperatures Double Glacier Loss in the Russian High Arctic

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The Cryosphere, 6 January 2022 Glaciers in the Russian High Arctic lost twice as much ice between 2010 and 2017…

Decline in Salmon Size Signals Potentially Significant Fisheries and Ecosystem Shift in the North Atlantic

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Science Advances, 4 March 2022 In 2005, a sudden reduction in the transport of Arctic water into the Norwegian Sea…

Warm Water Slowed Formation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Communications Earth & Environment, 21 February 2022 New evidence suggests the presence of warm, deep water delayed the expansion of…

Arctic Council Suspends Work Due to Invasion of Ukraine

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On March 3, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States issued the following joint…

Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss Increases the “Atlantification” of the Fram Strait

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 18 February 2022 The Fram Strait is the main waterway connecting the central Arctic Ocean…

Driven by Meltwater and Rising Temperatures, the Global Water Cycle is Accelerating

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Nature, 23 February 2022 Climate change, in part by causing an increase of meltwater flowing off ice sheets into the…

Rising Seas, Flooding and Erosion Threaten African Heritage Sites

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Nature Climate Change, 10 February 2022 This study offers the first comprehensive assessment of the exposure of African cultural and…

Rising Air Temperatures Break Up Larsen B Sea Ice from Antarctic Peninsula

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NASA Earth Observatory, 2 February 2022 Rising air temperatures and increasingly wet weather caused a large region of sea ice…

Newly Observed Ice Loss Mechanism May Cause Extremely High Melt Rate on Greenland

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Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, 8 March 2022 Surface meltwater heats up as it passes down through cracks…

Regional Cooling “Blue Blob” in North Atlantic Slows Melting of Iceland’s Glaciers

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Geophysical Research Letters, 24 January 2022 A patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic Ocean – nicknamed the…

COP-26 Video of the Week: Past is Present: Why 1.5°C is the Ice Sheet Temperature Limit, with Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton

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For a look at ice sheet behavior over the past several million years, in response to CO2 and warming levels…

Antarctic Flowering Plants Growing and Spreading at Unprecedented Rates

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Current Biology, 14 February 2022 Antarctica’s two native flowering plants - pearlwort and hairgrass - have experienced unprecedented growth over…