COP28 Video of the Week: “Antarctic and Southern Ocean Ecosystems Under Severe Threat from Climate Change”

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Climate change poses a severe threat to Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems, from sea ice loss to warming waters and…

Past Warming Triggered Rapid Runaway Ice Loss in West Antarctica

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Nature Geoscience, 8 February 2024 Scientists have uncovered for the first time direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet…

Short-term Extreme Events Essential in Predicting Future Sea Level Rise

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 8 February 2024 This review paper brought together an international team of 29 ice sheet…

Video of the Week: “Causes and Impacts of the March 2022 Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica”

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Following up on two companion papers printed in the Journal of Climate last week, this presentation by lead author Dr.…

Tropical Weather Directly Linked to Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica

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Journal of Climate, 1 February 2024 A team of five dozen scientists from fourteen countries unraveled the dynamics and impacts…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Warming Pushes Northern Hemisphere Snowpack Toward Critical Threshold

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

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

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

Greenland Ice Loss 20% Higher Than Previously Estimated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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