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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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