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Buffeted by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific on the other, the Mitre Peninsula, at the far southern tip of South America, is one of the coldest, harshest places on the planet. “It’s the end of the earth,” said Martina Sasso, program coordinator at Rewilding Argentina But this 2,400-square-kilometer slab is also […]

Arjen Stroeven and Ian Brown of Stockholm University are each leading a research team in the expedition DML 2021/22 to Antarctica. During the austral summer in December to February the expedition will be collecting data to help climate researchers monitor and assess changes in the ice sheet. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest store of frozen freshwater on the planet, and if it melts, it will have incalculable global consequences. Follow the expedition on the Polar Research Secretariat's blog

Sweden's highest mountain has shrunk by two meters in one year due to the melting of the glacier that covers it.

The 50×30 coalition is an alliance between cryosphere and emissions research institutions, and governments that have accepted the scientific necessity to reduce emissions 50% by 2030; in order to prevent cascading and irreversible damage, on a planetary scale, from the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the cryosphere. Because of cryosphere, carbon neutrality by 2050 is not enough: the way we get there matters.  Overshoot of the 1.5°C goal cannot be considered a viable or safe option, from either an economic or social standpoint. This is because much of the Earth’s polar and mountain ...