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Satellite image of the Himalayas
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Himalayas Are Experiencing an “Exceptional” Loss of Glacial Mass

by Rishika Pardikar 10 February 202210 February 2022

The Himalayas have lost 40% of their glacial mass since the Little Ice Age. East Nepal and Bhutan have experienced the most rapid losses.

Speleothems hang from the roof of a cave in Herbstlabyrinth, Germany
Posted inScience Updates

Improving Access to Paleoclimate Data

by N. Kaushal, L. Comas-Bru, F. A. Lechleitner, I. G. Hatvani and Z. Kern 1 March 20217 February 2022

Paleoclimate databases are powerful tools for improving climate models. The recent work of speleothem researchers offers lessons on creating a lasting database and fostering the needed mindset.

Painting of a winter landscape in Europe circa 1608 by Hendrick Avercamp
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The Little Ice Age Wasn’t Global, but Current Climate Change Is

by J. Barbuzano 24 July 20197 February 2022

None of the cold and warm epochs from the past 2,000 years were global events, but the current period of climate change is more intense and is happening simultaneously across the entire planet.

A series of petroglyphs of animal, human, and plant images on a cliff wall
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European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling

by Mary Caperton Morton 8 April 20197 February 2022

The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.

The open ocean
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Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”

by Jenessa Duncombe 7 February 201921 March 2022

Measurements from a 19th century scientific expedition have revealed that the deep Pacific waters are cooling from lower global temperatures centuries ago.

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