Greenland’s Surface Also to Show Net Ice Loss at Global Temperatures Above ~2.5°C

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Geophysical Research Letters, January 19 Greenland has been losing mass and contributing to sea-level rise since the 1980’s, according to…

2020 is the Hottest Year on Record Says NASA, Despite Cooling Influence of La Niña

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Using 1951-1980 as baseline, NASA ranked 2020 as the warmest year on record by a narrow margin, while NOAA and…

New Understanding of Cloud Formation May Improve Climate Projections over Antarctica

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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, January 19 The ratio of ice to water in clouds strongly influences how much they reflect…

Number of Glacier-Related Landslides Doubles in High Mountain Asia During the Past 20 Years

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Nature Scientific Reports, January 15 Glacial melting has been identified as one of the main triggers for larger and more…

Heightened Risk of Water Stress in the Himalayas Under High Emissions Scenarios

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Advancing Earth and Space Science, January 19   The response of Himalayan rivers to climate change is complex due to…

Increase in Arctic Ocean Nutrients from Permafrost Thaw and Coastal Erosion

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Nature Communications, January 8 Rapid coastal and riverbank erosion due to thawing permafrost today is one of the main sources…

Movement of Antarctic Icebergs Helped Drive the Onset of Ice Ages

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Nature, January 13   Ice ages have long been associated with small periodic changes in the Earth’s orbit around the…

Oldest and Thickest Arctic Sea Ice Endangered

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Nature Communications, January 4 The oldest and thickest portions of Arctic sea ice can be found in the Nares Strait,…

Long-term Warming Projections Increase When Including Regional Temperature Differences

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Nature, January 4 Warming does not occur evenly across the world. Regional differences in temperature can influence the way the…

Warm Water from the Atlantic Accelerates Greenland Glacier Retreat and Ice Sheet Loss

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Science Advances, January 1   Warm Atlantic water flowing into dozens of Greenland’s deepest fjords nearly doubles the amount of…

High Emissions Scenarios Could Double Ice-Free Freshwater Lakes by 2100

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Geophysical Research Letters, August 14   Since the 1970s, freshwater lakes in the Northern Hemisphere have been three times more…

Giant Antarctic Icebergs Deliver Vast Amounts of Freshwater to the Southern Ocean

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Science Advances, December 16 Large tabular icebergs (with areas ≥ 3 km2) are one of the greatest sources of melting…

Major Temperature Dataset Revises Estimates of Warming Upwards by 18%

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Journal of Geophysical Research, December 15   A new revision of the UK Met Office HadCRUT5 dataset finds that global…

New IPCC Models Double SLR Estimates from Greenland by 2100 with High Emissions

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Nature Communications, December 15 New CMIP6 models developed for the sixth IPCC Assessment Report (AR6) show that surface melt from…

Even Frozen Permafrost Can Produce Carbon Emissions

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Frontier Earth Science, December 15 Measurements of carbon emissions (the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane) from a permafrost column sample…