Khan et al. provides a detailed literature review in this #newarticle on glacial lake mapping, including datasets and methods used, guidance on selection of appropriate data and methods, and recommendations for future research direction: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Kent et al. just published a #newarticle and found that Arctic warming and ice-wedge degradation results in a loss of shrubs and a shift towards aquatic moss-dominated vegetation communities. This moss proliferation may be an important climate feedback: doi.org/10.1080/1523....

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Kopalová et. al. published a #newarticle that explores bacterial and diatom diversity in waterbodies across the Antarctic Peninsula. They found significant differences in bacterial, but not diatom, communities: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Glacier meltwater streams can act as both a carbon sink and source, releasing methane but storing carbon dioxide through mineral weathering. Ragnoli et al.’s #newarticle explores this source and sink behavior in the Eastern Alps: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Hotaling et al.’s #newarticle took them to Paradise Glacier on the south side of Mount Rainier to collect and study glacial ice worms. Despite living in ice, these worms cannot tolerate freezing: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Rock glaciers, found in warmer, drier environments than alpine glaciers, are relatively common but their distribution and number are not well known. Fountain et al.’s #newarticle identified 2,257 rock glaciers and their importance to the American West: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Ice-capped mountains in the western United States are shrinking due to climate change. Hotaling et al. surveyed five of these summits in Washington state and published a #newarticle detailing their findings: doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Check out Thomas Ager’s #newarticle that uses a pollen analysis to reconstruct the landscape and climate of western Alaska during and after the Late Glacial Maximum. Turns out the area was drier and colder than it is today: doi.org/10.1080/1523....

#newarticle Ray & Vidrio analyze the longest study of American pika population dynamics & find dramatic decline in juvenile recruitment within a core of the species' range. Warming summers may reduce the successful dispersal of juveniles even at high elevations: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2570526

The Ray & Vidrio 2025 pika paper was published in INSTAAR's peer-reviewed journal "Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research" @aaarjournal.bsky.social

Calcareous glacier forefields harbor a rich diversity of Mortierellaceae, typical for high alpine environments. In a #newarticle, Szedlacsek et al. discover that so far undescribed lineages could be isolated from the mountain-sites of Marmolada: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2555628

Muhs & Pigati’s #newarticle on the origin of loess of the last glacial period on Seward Peninsula, AK, reports glacial silts of the Kobuk & Noatak Rivers were the most important sources, from northeasterly paleowinds, in good agreement with climate models: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2564571

#newarticle by Bergstrom et al. for our special issue on Mountain Hydrology finds that geology and geomorphic indicators of surface water-groundwater exchange are important predictors of water quality in glacier influenced temperature alpine watersheds: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2560144

miriamcjones.bsky.social et al.’s #newarticle on Bering Land Bridge (BLB) climate & vegetation during the Last Glacial Maximum shows Bering Sea island vegetation communities reflect the timing of their isolation from the BLB with sea level transgression: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2557062

#newarticle Harrison et al. find that pikas in Alaska continue to occupy territories yearly when temperatures in their rock dens remain moderate during summer, which can help identify areas where populations are likely to persist under a changing climate: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2502161

#newarticle Lakka et al.’s Arctic Answers brief reviews problems with leading practices to protect Arctic biodiversity & argues for environmental policies that better focus on the successful conservation of freshwater and healthy ecosystems in the Arctic: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2506876

Marziliano, Stone, & Webb’s #newarticle shows how understanding the representativeness of snow depth measurements as variability increases from the accumulation to melt periods can improve snow supply estimates for springtime runoff: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2495518

#newarticle Hersberger et al.’s paleoecological study of the Pindos Mountains, northern Greece, reports that transhumant pastoralism might have been practiced since at least the Late Bronze Age, possibly the Neolithic, much earlier than previously thought: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2545038

J. Mizel’s #newarticle studying shrub tundra passerines assesses that the density of shrub-adapted passerines in above-treeline regions of Alaska responds positively to alder and upright willow shrub cover but weakly to birch shrub cover: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2546175

#newarticle Yoshikawa et al. monitored permafrost borehole temperatures in the high arid Andes & found that the type of snow ablation varies with elevation and affects the thermal properties of the permafrost: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2532202

Brown & Wagner’s #newarticle introduces MDV ClimEx, an open-source web app for exploring 30+ years of climate data from Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. This tool helps visualize long-term trends, detect anomalies & support research on climate impacts in MDV: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2529043

In a #newarticle, Uccello et al. demonstrate that decades of small mammal herbivore exclusion drive plant community nutrient changes in a Northern Alaskan tundra. This work also shows the importance of including bryophytes in Arctic nutrient research: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2532885

#newarticle by Marshall et al. investigates a unique pairing of Holocene lake sediment & soil records from central Alaska, highlighting the importance of sediment burial efficiency on carbon accumulation in high-latitude lakes: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2523083 @leahpmarshall.bsky.social

In Magnusson et al's #newarticle, virgin land near a Norwegian melting glacier was rapidly colonized by soil-living Nematoda & larvae of Chironomidae midges & other Diptera. They show how these groups contribute significantly to establish an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2518768

In March 1912, Captain Robert Scott & his remaining men perished in a blizzard on the Ross Ice Shelf on their return journey from the South Pole. In a #newarticle, M. Zinkova explores the weather conditions that made this unusual Final Blizzard possible: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2522490

DeMaster et al’s new "Arctic Answers" examines record low salmon runs in the Yukon River Basin due to climate change, commercial fishing & bycatch. They discuss actions & management approaches to combat this crisis for the Alaska Native subsistence community: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2510793

Kuzmina’s #newarticle for our special collection on Beringian Environments presents a thorough study of the fossil insect fauna of Beringia, contributing to our knowledge of the unique Pleistocene steppe-tundra biota of both Western and Eastern Beringia: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2494353

Microplastics (MPs) studies in Antarctica are scarce, especially in top predators like marine mammals. Santillán et al.’s #newarticle fills this gap by evaluating the occurrence of MPs in Antarctic seals and penguins in Admiralty Bay, King George Island: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2507463

@morganwindle.bsky.social et al.’s #newarticle documents modern reindeer herders' riding traditions in Mongolia to link reindeer skeletal changes to riding, broadening our capacity to trace the deeper history of reindeer domestication in Northeast Asia: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2493391

Tuomaala et al.’s #newarticle on soil profiles collected from subarctic Greenland shows two landscape regime shifts: organic soils were recently established on mineral soil & Sphagnum moss is overtaking tundra communities: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2484867

An anomalous warm weather event in the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys in March 2022 caused unseasonal melt within Taylor Valley. Snyder et al.’s #newarticle explores the effect of this event on soil biota communities most sensitive to freeze-thaw stress: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2485283

#newarticle by Stringer et al. offers a new data set of land cover of major deglaciated sites in West Antarctica, highlighting a spatial pattern where northern sites have more vegetation & active sediments and have changed more rapidly: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2483474

#newarticle by Swanger et al. investigates the origin & structure of a buried dead ice mass in Taylor Valley. Taylor Glacier retreated from its marine isotope stage 5e (~125 ka) max. to its present level or lower by ~62 ka but possibly as early as ~81 to 94 ka: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2478696

#newarticle by Terekhov et al. examines 4 ice caps of the remote Bennett Island using archived in situ data & calculation of the recent geodetic mass balance. It shows that the mass loss of the island’s glaciation sped up significantly since the 2000s: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2483781

Simultaneous heatwaves occurred in March 2022 in both Antarctic & Arctic regions. In a #newarticle, Bernard & Friedt investigate the impact of this extreme weather event from the perspective of a North-facing polar glacier in Norway’s Brøgger peninsula: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2479899

Charles et al.’s #newarticle studies how plant-soil relationships change with glacier retreat and finds that after 140 years of glacier retreat, soil pH becomes very acidic & plant competition leads to a shift from herbaceous communities to coniferous forest: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2483455

#newarticle by Rue & McKnight leverages established & contemporary techniques for characterizing dissolved organic matter (DOM) to provide new knowledge into the diversity & structure of DOM under contrasting biogeochemical conditions in an Antarctic lake: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2478678

🚨 New ocean sediment drilling report INSTAAR Fellow ANNE JENNINGS co-led IODP #Exp400, which collected cores off the NW Greenland glaciated margin in 2023... incl one 978m (3209ft) long! The team's (ongoing) work spans a lot of ice sheet & ocean history publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

#newarticle by Kytöviita & Francini shows that plasticity of root fungal symbiosis contributes to the grazing tolerance in the grass Avenella flexuosa. Urea deposition is more important than defoliation in triggering grazing responses in mycorrhizal symbiosis: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2475570

#newarticle by Stewart & Aastrup finds that seismic operations in East Greenland left imprints on local vegetation that could still be seen 34 years later & total recovery of the damaged vegetation will most likely not happen within a foreseeable time scale: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2465204

#callforpapers We are less than 1 week away from the submission deadline for our special collection “Arctic and Alpine Social-Ecological Systems: Sustainability & Resilience!” Find more info & read the other articles in the issue here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/uaa...

The 2024 Editors’ Choice Award winner is Melissa Ward Jones et al.'s International Permafrost Assn. article! The study is currently one of our most read articles & is a significant contribution to our special issue on sustainability & resilience. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/uaa...

The cover image for our 2025 issue is Dr. Alia Khan’s photo of the Dudh Koshi river basin w/ Cho Oyu mountain at the top of the watershed, taken during a field campaign for the Contributions of Snow and Ice melt in High Asia (CHARIS) project. Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2467587

Ullah et al’s #newarticle is a 3-year survey of the diversity & distribution of plant communities in the district of South Waziristan. It marks the first documentation of the area & offers fundamental data for future studies concerning botanical resources: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2458736

#newarticle by Ono & Takeuchi reveals snow algae and microinvertebrates in the snowpack in northern Japan migrate diurnally within the snowpack to remain under the best conditions for their growth, thriving in the Microbial Active Snow Surface (MASS) layer: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2460253

Leland et al.’s #newarticle uses wood anatomical records to investigate an extreme cold event in 1959 in northwestern Canada & contributes to our understanding of the capacity of these records to capture historical climate extremes @wpunj_edu @TreeRingLab doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2445945

#newarticle by Lisi et al. characterizes the diet composition of tundra voles in northern Alaska, finding that they feed primarily on rhizomatous sedges but shift consumption seasonally from rhizomes in early summer to tillers and buds in late summer: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2444044

#newarticle by Nagaike & Iijima studies the effects of bark stripping by sika deer on the survival of subalpine conifers in a Betula forest in Japan & concludes possible upward range shifts of the tree species can be inhibited by bark-stripping herbivores: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2447631

Oldfather et al.’s #newarticle in our Sustainability & Resilience special collection synthesizes research on climate change impacts & responses in US Rocky Mountain high-elevation ecosystems to support future climate adaptation in resource management: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2450089