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Atmospheric River Creates Record-high Temperatures and Surface Melt in Antarctic Peninsula

NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4 December 2023 A similar atmospheric river swept intense heat and rainfall across the Antarctic…

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COP28 Video of Week: “Climate Change Increases Antarctica’s Vulnerability to Extreme Events”

This side event features Dr. Jonathan Wille, ETH Zurich, lead author of the two companion papers summarized above. He volunteered…

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Record Low Snowfall Sounds Alarm for Water Security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

News Briefing: 26 January 2024 Mirroring the “snow drought” that struck western North America, mountains across the Hindu Kush Himalaya…

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Climate Warming Pushes Northern Hemisphere Snowpack Toward Critical Threshold

Nature, 10 January 2024 This study contained two major findings: first, human-driven fossil fuel emissions have significantly reduced snowpack across…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Disappearing Snow and Ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”

The snow and ice of the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains supply seasonal freshwater to river basins that serve billions of…

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Greenland Ice Loss 20% Higher Than Previously Estimated

Nature, 17 January 2024 New measurements reveal that the Greenland Ice Sheet lost 20% more ice over the past four…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Antarctica and Greenland: Nearing Thresholds from Different Ends” with Chris Stokes

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing ice; and have the potential to undergo rapid and self-sustaining retreat…

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Marine Ice Sheet Instability Triggered Rapid Retreat of Major West Antarctic Glacier

Nature Climate Change, 4 December 2023 The massive Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica underwent a fifty-year period of “marine…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Future Sea Level Rise from the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Equity and Intergenerational Justice”

Dr. Holly Han volunteered at the COP28 Cryosphere Pavilion as part of our Early Career Scientists Program, moderating side events…

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One-Third of European Alps Glacier Ice Now Committed to Disappear Before 2050

Geophysical Research Letters, 1 December 2023 This study finds that the prognosis for glaciers in the European Alps is worse…

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