New ‘COP30’ Video: Governing the Cryosphere Beyond Political Timeframes

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Cryosphere systems are nearing irreversible thresholds, yet political processes remain misaligned with the long timescales of ice loss. Using COP30…

Comprehensive Assessment Maps Sea-level Rise Across Africa

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Nature Communications, 15 December 2025 Sea-level rise along Africa’s coasts is now occurring four times faster than observed in the…

Narrow Channels on Bottom of Antarctic Ice Shelves Amplify Melting

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Nature Climate Change, 9 January 2026 Warm water draining and flowing beneath ice shelves carves channels into the ice, where…

Thawing Permafrost Directly Increases Wildfire Risk and Carbon Emissions

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Nature Geoscience, 9 January 2026 As frozen permafrost thaws and the seasonally thawed layer deepens, summers become hotter and drier,…

Polar and Mountain Microbial Communities Depend on a Stable Cryosphere

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Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5 November 2025 This review summarizes the harmful impacts of snow and ice loss on microbial communities…

COP30 Video of the Week: Educating for the Cryosphere – 5 Years of Lessons Learned and Future Pathways for Impact

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Education is a vital lever for climate resilience. This side event presented lessons from five years of implementing the Ocean…

Past Arctic Warming Reveals Greenland Ice Vulnerability at Low Temperature Thresholds

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Nature Geoscience, 24 November 2025 The Prudhoe Dome ice cap in northern Greenland completely melted 7,000 years ago and was…

Today’s Emissions Choices Cause Stark Differences in Future Sea-Level Rise from Antarctica

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Nature Communications, 5 December 2025 Very high emissions will trigger large-scale Antarctic ice sheet retreat over coming centuries, while net-zero…

COP30 Video of the Week: Warming of 1.5°C is Too High for Polar Ice Sheets

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Ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s. This has raised concerns about their…

Happy Cryosphere 2026

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Thank You for 2025! From the launch of the International Year of Glaciers Preservation during January and March in Geneva,…

Limiting Warming to 1.5°C Could Halve Glacier “Extinction” in Coming Decades

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Nature Climate Change, 15 December 2025 Glacier loss is projected to rapidly increase this century, peaking between 2040 and 2055,…

Reduced Arctic Sea Ice Threatens Polar Cod, Restructuring Food Webs

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Nature Communications, 6 November 2025 The amount of sunlight entering the Arctic Ocean will likely increase by 50-77% over coming…

COP30 Video of the Week: Super Pollutants, Arctic Shipping, Myths and Realities

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Immediately reducing emissions of super pollutants – short-lived climate forcers – is the best option to avoid runaway Arctic warming…

Fastest Glacier Retreat on Record: Hektoria Hints at Potential Scale of Future Antarctic Ice Loss

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Nature Geoscience, 3 November 2025 In a stunning two-month period from November to December 2022, nearly 50% of Hektoria Glacier…

60% of Antarctic Ice Shelves Could Disappear Under Very High Emissions

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Nature, 29 October 2025 Southern Ocean warming could lead to 60% of Antarctic ice shelves disappearing by 2300 under a…