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.
Arctic
2020 Arctic Report Card now available
The annual
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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.
NSIDC Monthly Arctic Update – Nov 2020
Once a month the NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center. issues an Arctic update. The latest update is not Business as Usual #climate #arctic
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet
Ice floe drifting in Svalbard, Norway. Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September. This year it measures just 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) … Read more