Large Reduction in Glaciers Under High Emissions Scenario in Central Himalayas

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Journal of Glaciology, August 26 Up to 85% of the glaciers found in the Koshi River Basin could disappear by 2100…

Huge Pathways of Warm Water Found Under Major Antarctic Glacier

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New maps collected under the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier and further offshore reveal deep (> 1000 m) and wide…

2020 Arctic Fires Already One-third Higher Than 2019 Record High

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Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, September 3 Arctic fire emissions – those directly caused by humans, as well as those from…

Majority of Antarctic Ice Shelves Sensitive to Meltwater Fracturing

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Nature, August 26 Antarctic ice shelves - floating ice in contact with land ice - are both critical to maintaining ice…

Earlier Spring Rain on Arctic Sea Ice Accelerates Loss

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The Cryosphere, August 28 Rain events on some portions of the Arctic Ocean have occurred nearly 4-6 days earlier for…

Rapid Worldwide Growth in Glacial Lakes and Risk of Outburst Floods

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Nature Climate Change, August 31 The global volume of glacier lakes increased 48% between 1990 and 2018, to 156.5 km3,…

Ice Sheet Loss from Greenland and Antarctica Track Worst-case IPCC AR5 Projections

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Nature Climate Change, August 31   The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have increased global sea level by 12.3 mm…

Massive Amounts of Ice Loss in the Cryosphere

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The Cryosphere Discussion/Review, August 14 A paper placed in open review notes that the cryosphere globally has lost a total…

Reconstruction of Sea-level Rise Sources Closes the “Sea-level Budget”

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Nature, August 19 For the first time, researchers have been able to close the “sea-level budget” (relative sources of sea-level…

Unexpected Basal Ocean Melting in East Antarctica

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Nature Communications, August 24 The floating Shirase Ice Tongue (a long and narrow projection of ice, connected an ice basin…

Satellite Data Confirms Accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet Loss

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Nature, August 20   The Greenland Ice Sheet lost a record-breaking 532 (± 58 Gt) of ice in 2019, up around 200 Gt in the…

Ice Mass Loss from Greenland Will Continue Even After Stabilized

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Nature, Communications Earth & Environment, August 13 Acceleration of outlet glaciers from the Greenland ice sheet, not compensated by accumulation…

Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves

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Nature Geoscience, August 10 Between 1994 and 2018, Antarctic ice shelves (floating ice connected to the land-based Antarctic ice sheet)…

Emissions from Thawing Peatland Permafrost 30-50% Greater than Previous Estimates

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 10 Under high emissions scenarios, northern hemisphere permafrost and peatlands will show…

Arctic Sea Ice More Sensitive to Emissions: Ice-Free Arctic During Last Interglacial Points to Rapid Future Loss

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Nature Climate Change, August 10 The Arctic Ocean could be seasonally ice-free at temperatures only slightly above today’s, once land-based…