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A 93-strong international expedition team has been exploring the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since February 8, 2026. In this key region for global ocean currents, the focus has been on the outflow of ice and water from the Larsen Ice Shelf and the astonishing sea ice retreat of recent years. When the research work had to be interrupted due to rough weather conditions in order to seek shelter in the lee of Joinville Island, the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts.

A new study reveals that most fatal landslides occur in human-transformed environments. Conducted by an international team of researchers from the University of Vienna, Ankara University, Istanbul Technical University, Bursa Uludag University, and the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the study provides a global overview of how human pressure modulates landslide occurrences. The paper is published in the journal Science Advances.

Glaciers in High Mountain Asia—a region encompassing the Tibetan 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. These findings reveal that if the extreme conditions that led to this decline continue, enhanced glacier melt could intensify short-term flood risks and substantially reduce long-term meltwater availability. The researchers say the findings underscore the need for reduced greenhouse gas emissions to stave off glacier melt and preserve a larger fraction of the region's cryospheric water storage.

Summer weather is arriving earlier, lasting longer and packing more heat than it used to—and it's happening faster than scientists had previously measured. A new study by UBC researchers has found that between 1990 and 2023, the average summer between the tropics and the polar circles grew about six days longer per decade. That's up from roughly four days per decade found in past research investigations up until the early 2010s.

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

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Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Clothilde Minnaert, Samuel Angiboust, Jorge Sanhueza, Rolf L. Romer, Anfisa Skoblenko, Ivan Sobolev, Jesús Muñoz-Montecinos

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Yuta Otsuki, Ken-ichi Bajo, Tomoya Obase, Rainer Wieler, Hisayoshi Yurimoto

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Haiqiang Lan, Ling Chen, Bo Wan, Morteza Talebian, Sebastien Chevrot, Yang Chu, Xu Wang, Jie Chen, Yifan Gao, Zimu Wu, Naeim Mousavi, Xi Xu, Wenjiao Xiao, Rixiang Zhu

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Pengfei Lv, Xinyu Zou, Jilian Jiang, Yong Zhao, Weiying Chen, Shen Gao, Guoqiang Xue, Kezhang Qin, Ross N. Mitchell, Wei Yang

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Seiji Tsuboi, Rhett Butler

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Yihang Ding, C.K. Shum, Michael Bevis, Shuaiying Wu, Shengdao Wang, Yuan Xue, Xudong Fu

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Hao Xie, Caicai Liu, Zhuqi Zhang, Weitao Wang, Murat Tamer, Xudong Zhao, Kang Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Xuemei Li, Yanjiang Liu, Jingxing Yu, Dewen Zheng, Ying Wang, Huiping Zhang, Peizhen Zhang

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Xiang He, Xiaoping Yuan, Jun Cheng, David B. Kemp, Xianyan Wang, Zongmin Zhu, Junsheng Nie, Shucheng Xie

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

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Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Ke Zhu, Peng Ni, Qi Chen, Mahesh Anand, Meng-Hua Zhu, Tim Elliott

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Chris T.L. Cheung, Kohen W. Bauer, Brian Beaty, Juan Miguel Guotana, Decibel V. Faustino-Eslava, Boriana Kalderon-Asael, Dan Asael, Karen Luk, Giancarlo DeFrancesco, Sean M. Newby, Yonghui Qin, Noah J. Planavsky, N. Ryan McKenzie

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Cheng Cheng, Dan Wang, Shuangying Li, Hua Zhang

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Alexander Wickham-Piotrowski, Anne Meltzer, Gabriela Ponce, Susan Beck, Sandro Vaca, Monica Segovia, Steven Roecker, Mario Ruiz, Stephen Hernandez

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Guangming Luo, Shengwen Qi, Bowen Zheng, Manchao He, Derek Elsworth, Wenjiao Xiao

Publication date: 1 June 2026

Source: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 683

Author(s): Zhifei Duan, Chao Li, Helen Bostock, Yanguang Liu, Jian-xin Zhao, Yiming Luo, Yonghua Wu, Ai Nguyen, Shouye Yang