The Arctic could have summer days with practically no sea ice within the next decade due to emissions from burning fossil fuels, a study has…
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Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
Significant areas of Greenland’s melted ice sheet are now producing vegetation, risking increased greenhouse gas emissions, rising sea levels and instability of the landscape. A…
View More Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic world
It is summer and the air temperature is just below freezing. Fog has crept in, blurring the outline of Polarstern, the German icebreaker moored to…
View More ‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic worldGreenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which…
View More Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study revealsRed alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’
Morning is a construct in the Antarctic summer. It’s 7.30am and Nerilie Abram, a climate science professor at the Australian National University, is having breakfast…
View More Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
Accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, research indicates. The…
View More Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research showsFears over Antarctic sea ice as yearly ozone layer hole forms ‘very early’
The hole in the ozone layer has begun to form early this year, prompting warnings that a larger-than-average hole may further warm the Southern Ocean…
View More Fears over Antarctic sea ice as yearly ozone layer hole forms ‘very early’UK weather: temperatures forecast to drop further on Tuesday
Warnings for ice and snow across the country will continue in to Tuesday after temperatures plunged on Sunday night, triggering an alert from the UK…
View More UK weather: temperatures forecast to drop further on TuesdayMelting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?
Like the apocryphal frog that doesn’t notice the rising water temperature until it’s boiled alive, we as a global society are still struggling to recognise…
View More Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study. It shows five dangerous tipping…
View More World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds