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New mapping shows how Antarctica’s huge Totten Glacier has retreated far inland, raising sea levels by more than a metre. Rising temperatures could trigger it to do so again.
Global average sea level has risen by about 17 cm between 1900 and 2005, but we didn’t know how much of that was due to us, until now.
Could sea levels really rise by several metres this century. Probably not, although this century’s greenhouse emissions could potentially set the stage for large rises in centuries to come.
Despite their image as cold-loving creatures, Adélie penguins could be winners from climate change.
Scientists have figured out how microbes may have found food when trapped beneath ice for millions of years.
What happens beneath the surface before a volcano erupts? Can we predict when one will blow? And how can typhoons and melting glaciers contribute to big eruptions?
Researchers in East Antarctica have surveyed an area the size of New South Wales to study the behaviour of the region’s biggest glacier - and the secrets below the ice that could speed up its melting.
A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial surveys. Since…
Antarctic climate science is having a moment – a worrying moment. Three new studies have all concluded that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun to collapse. This collapse will impact humanity for generations…
The significant retreat of elements of the West Antarctic ice sheet such as the Thwaites glacier recently reported in the journal Science suggests a possible sea level rise of 3 to 3.7m. This is a huge…
Warming in the Arctic has now reached the northernmost sections of the Greenland ice sheet. After a long period of stability (more than 25 years), we have found in a new study of the region that the northeast…
Scientists have discovered the loud sound of sizzling glacier ice melting into the sea which may hold the key for monitoring…
Scientists are able to more accurately predict sea level rise thanks to new research into how glaciers respond to climate…
That extreme lifeforms might exist in the cold and dark lakes hidden kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet has fascinated scientists for decades. Understanding how life can exist in the most extreme…
Warmer climates are shrinking Tibetan glaciers at their summits, researchers have discovered. A study has shown that the…
From 1865 glaciers in the Alps began retreating at unprecedented levels and new research conducted by the University of Michigan…
Small numbers can imply big things. Global sea level rose by a little less than 0.2 metres during the 20th century – mainly in response to the 0.8 °C of warming humans have caused through greenhouse gas…
The melting of glaciers accounts for one third of observed sea level rise, according to new research published in Science…
Differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise have been resolved by a…
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Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow, Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Geography, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Geography and the Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Glaciology, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow in Glacial Geomorphology, Monash University
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Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University
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Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, Glaciology, University of Portsmouth
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Climate Scientist, British Antarctic Survey
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Professor of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College
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Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University