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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Red 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’The hottest summer in human history – a visual timeline
As the world sweltered through the hottest three month spell in human history this summer, extreme weather disasters took more than 18,000 lives, drove at…
View More The hottest summer in human history – a visual timelineScientists lament Southern Ocean ‘data desert’, just as climate crisis brings frightening changes
A chronic shortage of observations of the vast ocean surrounding Antarctica is hindering more accurate forecasts of the consequences of the climate crisis, a meeting…
View More Scientists lament Southern Ocean ‘data desert’, just as climate crisis brings frightening changesFears 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’Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
“Very unusual”, “worrying”, “terrifying”, and “bonkers”; the reactions of veteran scientists to the sharp increase in north Atlantic surface temperatures over the past three months…
View More Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic
New data has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average. The heating is occurring…
View More New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the ArcticArctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usual
An extreme heat event in the Arctic could cause it to reach the maximum of the extent of its ice for this year “considerably earlier”…
View More Arctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usualArctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to survive – study
Polar bears and narwhals are using up to four times as much energy to survive because of major ice loss in the Arctic, according to…
View More Arctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to survive – studyExtraordinary voyage: on the trail of the trillion-tonne runaway iceberg
Polar researchers will this week embark on a remarkable expedition aimed at providing crucial information about the vast iceberg, A68a, that has been spiralling northwards…
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