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ICCI is Hiring!

Dear Cryosphere Capsule Readers 30 December 2022 ICCI is looking to fill two positions early in 2023: our Outreach Director,…

三年前

Arctic Sea Ice Threshold Crossed in Kara and Laptev “Ice Factories”

Nature Communications, 17 December 2022 Rising temperatures in the Arctic are overwhelming the ability of sea ice to regrow in…

三年前

Warm Meltwater from Neighboring Glaciers Further Destabilizes Thwaites Ice Shelf

Nature Communications, 21 December 2022 Small ocean currents known as “gyres” can trap heat along the edges of West Antarctica,…

三年前

COP27 Video of the Week: “If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World” with Maxine Burkett, Jason Box, John Walsh, James Overland and Susanna Israelsson

The Arctic is currently warming three to four times faster than the rest of the world. Melting sea ice, thawing…

三年前

2022 Arctic Report Card: Arctic Becoming Warmer, Wetter and with More Extreme Weather

News Briefing: 14 December 2022 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their 17th annual “Arctic Report Card,”…

四年前

Diverse Plants and Animals Covered Greenland 2 Million Years Ago at Temperatures that May Be Reached with Continued High Emissions

Nature, 7 December 2022 Ancient DNA frozen in permafrost from northern Greenland reveals that this region was covered in a…

四年前

COP27 Video of the Week: “Co-producing Adaptation Strategies to the Climate Crisis in the Arctic” with Susan Natali and Áslat Holmberg

Arctic Indigenous Peoples face a complex landscape of environmental hazards due to climate change. Many Arctic communities are experiencing escalating…

四年前

Major Report Released on Mountain Glaciers in World Heritage Sites

News Briefing: 2 November 2022 The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), supported by the International Union for Conservation…

四年前

Bering and Chukchi Seas Will Likely Become Too Warm for Seafloor Arctic Species by 2100

Deep Sea Research Part II, 2 December 2022 With continued high CO2 emissions, cold water invertebrates in the Arctic Bering…

四年前

COP27 Video of the Week: “Cascading Impacts: How Can We Adapt and Reduce Risk in the Mountains and Downstream?” with Carolina Adler, Arun Shrestha, Christine Kaaya Nakimwero, and Helmut Hojesky

Climate hazards in mountains have compounding negative effects on local ecosystems, with cascading impacts on billions of people downstream and…

四年前