Reducing Warming to 1.5°C Cuts Sea-level Rise from All Land Ice in Half by 2100

五年前

Nature, May 5 In addition to the DeConto et al. (2021) study covered in our May 5 “Special Edition,” Nature…

Special Edition: Catastrophic Irreversible Rates of Sea-level Rise from Antarctica if Current NDCs Don’t Improve

五年前

Summary: Allowing global temperatures to rise above 2°C compared to pre-industrial significantly increases the risk of triggering unstoppable Antarctic ice…

Reduced Black Carbon Emissions with Covid-19 Slowed Himalayan Melt and Increased Water Security

五年前

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 18 Research into the impact of black carbon has long noted the…

Global Glacier Loss Rates Greatly Accelerated Since 2020: Tripling or Quadrupling in Some Regions

五年前

Nature, April 28 Between 2000 and 2019, the world’s glaciers lost 267 billion tons of ice per year – equivalent…

Projected Warming of Water Surrounding Antarctic Ice Shelves

五年前

Geophysical Research Letters, April 18 The ocean around the base of Antarctica will continue to warm under future emission scenarios,…

Extreme Melt Season Ice Layers May Increase Meltwater Runoff from Greenland

五年前

Nature Communications, April 20 Surface meltwater run-off currently dominates ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Porous layers of…

Warm Surface Water “Bends” and Fractures Portions of West Antarctic Ice Shelf

五年前

Geophysical Research Letters, April 11 Although loss from Antarctica’s ice shelves is dominated by large calving events; smaller, more frequent…

Surface Melt and Runoff at Higher Temperatures Increases Chance of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

五年前

Geophysical Research Letters, April 8 Loss of Antarctic ice shelves – projections of ice off the main Antarctic Ice Sheet…

High Temperatures and Sea Ice Disintegration Leads to Acidification Hot Spots off Greenland

五年前

Nature Communications Earth & Environment, April 12 Some of the last remnants of thicker multi-year sea ice occur along the…

随着气温上升,南极大型冰架日益不稳

五年前

Nature Communications, March 31 A potentially irreversible tipping point in Antarctica’s large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (approximately the size of California)…

北极海冰融化加剧欧洲极端降雪

五年前

Nature Geoscience, April 1 The loss of Arctic sea ice directly contributed to the extreme snowfall and freezing across Europe…

南极西部大部分冰盖已识别出不可逆消融的阈值

五年前

The Cryosphere, March 25 Located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Pine Island is currently the fastest melting glacier in…

北极连续发生三次闪电——这可能是森林火灾增加的原因

五年前

Geophysical Research Letters, March 22 Lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially a source of increasing wildfires, tripled from 2010 to…

相对近期冰间期格陵兰冰盖完全消融的证据

五年前

The Cryosphere, March 18 Sediment at the bottom of the Camp Century ice core, collected 120 km from the coast…

青藏高原湿润化减缓全球变暖对永久冻土的融化

五年前

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 10 The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest and most extensive permafrost region in the…