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Arctic Council Suspends Work Due to Invasion of Ukraine

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

Rising Seas, Flooding and Erosion Threaten African Heritage Sites

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

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

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

四年前

Antarctic Flowering Plants Growing and Spreading at Unprecedented Rates

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

四年前

Seawater Can Intrude Even Under “Grounded” Ice to Accelerate Ice Sheet Retreat

The Cryosphere, 8 February 2022 New modeling suggests that warm seawater can slip underneath grounded ice sheets -- ice resting…

四年前

Evidence of Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss Despite Sub-freezing Surface Temperatures

Geology, 11 February 2022 New research resolves a long-standing discrepancy between marine records from the Ross Sea, which indicate complete…

四年前

Mount Everest’s Highest Glacier Losing Decades’ Worth of Ice Every Year

NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3 February 2022 The South Col Glacier next to the peak of Mount Everest has…

四年前

Glacier Retreat Has Increased Seven-Fold in Western Canada Since 2010

Remote Sensing of Environment, 7 January 2022 The compounding effects of climate change are particularly evident in Western Canada, where…

四年前

Study of “Decreased” Ice Volume Largely a Matter of Relabeling Glaciers as Ice Sheets

Nature Geoscience, 7 February 2022 Widespread media coverage of this study unfortunately has resulted in a mischaracterization of its main…

四年前