The ‘heat bombs’ destroying Arctic sea ice
New research from @YuengP (@sos_bangor_uni) and collaborators who have discovered ‘heat bombs’ entering the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific.
Arctic
Ancient Plants Under Greenland Ice
Long-lost Greenland Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat
Greenland: Warming Seas Accelerating Glacier Retreat
Greenland and Antarctica have been losing ice mass at a combined average rate of 427 billion metric tons (BMT) per year since 2002.
2020 Arctic Report Card now available
The annual
@NOAA
Arctic Report Card is available today for 2020. It discusses recent changes in the Arctic, extreme events, and broad implications for the Earth system.
+ Report: https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2020…
+ Video: https://youtu.be/TcfQiKUkgBY
+ Highlights: https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card
Increased ocean heat transport into the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean
New Study in Nature Climate Change reveals that the transport of ocean heat into the northern seas and the Arctic has increased dramatically.
Should we worry about Greenland melting?
New study reveals that the Greenland ice sheet is very likely to start melting at rates that we haven’t seen for at least 130,000 years.