Extreme Melt Season Ice Layers May Increase Meltwater Runoff from Greenland

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Nature Communications, April 20 Surface meltwater run-off currently dominates ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Porous layers of…

Warm Surface Water “Bends” and Fractures Portions of West Antarctic Ice Shelf

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Geophysical Research Letters, April 11 Although loss from Antarctica’s ice shelves is dominated by large calving events; smaller, more frequent…

Surface Melt and Runoff at Higher Temperatures Increases Chance of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

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Geophysical Research Letters, April 8 Loss of Antarctic ice shelves – projections of ice off the main Antarctic Ice Sheet…

High Temperatures and Sea Ice Disintegration Leads to Acidification Hot Spots off Greenland

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Nature Communications Earth & Environment, April 12 Some of the last remnants of thicker multi-year sea ice occur along the…

Large Antarctic Ice Shelf Increasingly Destabilized as Temperatures Rise

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Nature Communications, March 31 A potentially irreversible tipping point in Antarctica’s large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (approximately the size of California)…

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Fuels Extreme European Snowfall

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Nature Geoscience, April 1 The loss of Arctic sea ice directly contributed to the extreme snowfall and freezing across Europe…

Thresholds of Irreversible Retreat Identified on Major Portion of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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The Cryosphere, March 25 Located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Pine Island is currently the fastest melting glacier in…

Lightning Strikes Triple in the Arctic – Possible Source of Increased Wildfires

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Geophysical Research Letters, March 22 Lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially a source of increasing wildfires, tripled from 2010 to…

Evidence of Complete Greenland Ice Sheet Loss During Relatively Recent Interglacial

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The Cryosphere, March 18 Sediment at the bottom of the Camp Century ice core, collected 120 km from the coast…

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wetting Reduces Permafrost Thaw from Global Warming

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 10 The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest and most extensive permafrost region in the…

Extreme Meltwater Conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula’s Largest Remaining Ice Shelf

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The Cryosphere, February 25 During 2019-2020, surface melt duration and extent on the George VI Ice Shelf hit record-breaking highs,…

Snow Depth and Duration Rapidly Decreasing Across the Entire European Alps

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The Cryosphere, March 18 The first Alpine-wide analysis of snow trends, based on in situ measurements from six Alpine countries…

Acceleration of Western Arctic Sea Ice Loss Linked to Warming Pacific Air Currents

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Nature Communications, March 9 The western Arctic – located north of Alaska and Canada – has seen the fastest sea…

Future Increase in Glacial Lakes in Himalayas and Central Asia

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Journal of Glaciology, March 2 This new inventory of potential future lakes detected more than 25,000 “overdeepenings” (valleys gouged into…

Sea-level Rise by 2100 Could Exceed IPCC Projections Under High Emissions Scenarios

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One Earth, December 18, 2020 In relation to the above work on Antarctic sea-level rise, this late 2020 paper by…