"A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, stretching back 1.2 million years."

#cryosphere
#paleoclimate

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01523-7

Two Thousand Copernicus Images of the Day

#Atmosphere #Cryosphere #HumanActivities #Land #NaturalEvents #Nature #Water

▶️ 1 new picture from Copernicus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Thousand_Copernicus_Images_of_the_Day_%28Copernicus_2026-04-23%29.png

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said: “I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close.” "

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. “I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%. The most dramatic and drastic climate changes we see in the last 100,000 years of Earth history have been when the Amoc switched to a different state.” " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

#AMOC #Cryosphere #climate #climatedisruption #RapidClimateShifts #FossilFuels

I know you are all waiting for cheap oil, but

"Cutting the carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels to zero is the only way to halt global heating. WWF is also calling for emperor penguins to be listed as a “specially protected species” at the next Antarctic treaty meeting in May in Japan, which would help reduce other pressures on their habitat such as tourism and shipping."

“Human-induced climate change poses the most significant threat. Early sea ice breakup is already affecting colonies around the Antarctic, and further changes in sea ice will continue to affect their breeding, feeding and moulting habitat. Emperor penguins are a sentinel species that tell us about our changing world and how well we are controlling greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change.” >>
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction
#FossilFuels #cryosphere #biodiversity #collapse #extinction #oil #antarctica #climate #penguins #SentinelSpecies

High Mountain Asia's melting glaciers may threaten future water security

#Glaciers in High Mountain #Asia—a region encompassing the #Tibet'an Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges—are shrinking rapidly, endangering #water resources for millions of people, suggests a new study. Using satellite data from NASA's GRACE missions, results show that these extensive glacier systems, often called the "water towers of Asia," experienced significant losses in mass between 2002 and 2023.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-high-mountain-asia-glaciers-threaten.html

#ClimateCrisis
#Hydrology
#Cryosphere