High seas

Glacial melt's carbon connection

Record decline in ice sheets in Antarctic and Greenland

Digital maps created with satelllite data show the combined volume of ice loss in Greenland and west Antarctic is 500 km3

Heat from the Earth’s interior causing Greenland’s ice sheet to melt: study

This is for the first time that the ice loss has been linked to escaped heat from the Earth's interior

Climate change

Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels

What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea

Greening for good?

Global warming increases vegetation cover in the Northern Hemisphere

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Global mean sea level highest-ever in 2019

The State of Global Climate 2019 says that this is yet another sign of the world being in a climate emergency

Antarctica lost more than 3 trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years, but where is all the water going?

It’s time researchers and policy makers think about managing the water when even the more resilient of the two poles has given in to …

New radar allows scientists to see through ice

Science & Technology - Briefs

Limiting warming below 1.8°C critical to prevent irreversible loss of ice sheets, rapid sea level rise: Study

Reaching net zero carbon emissions before 2060 is critical to avoid this catastrophe

Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent for the year — 2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving the overall decline

As the Arctic’s bright ice is replaced by a darker open ocean surface, less of the sun’s radiation is reflected back to space, …

How does land motion, ice height impact sea-level rise? NASA shows in maps

In maps: How Earth’s surface mass in August 2020 deviated from average for all months between 2004 and 2009; spatial variations in the …

Greenland's ice sheet melting fast

Scientists discover remains of Earth's crust

What can a bucket of water tell us about Arctic marine life? A lot, says a new study

Scientists have proposed a new technique to monitor the impact of climate change and human activity on marine life

There is no safe level of global warming: IPCC report

Unless net carbon dioxide emissions are brought down to zero by 2050, warming above 1.5°C is practically inevitable

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

News 360° - Briefs

Why is Greenland ice sheet melting faster this September? Experts weigh in

Typically the ice sheet loses ice in the summer and gains mass in the months after

Whaling commission allows Eskimos whale hunting quota

Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks — destabilising its internal structure

This is a tragedy in making for half a billion people populating vulnerable coastal regions

Greenland, Antarctica lost 7,560 billion tonnes of ice sheet mass in last 3 decades, accounted for quarter of global sea-level rise

The polar ice sheets store 99% of Earth’s freshwater ice on land  

Scientific reticence is a serious threat when it comes to climate change

Professionals need to speak out on looming dangers even at the cost of getting it wrong