Mountain systems are sensitive to climate change. Loss of snow and ice sets off effects which have wide ranging consequences.
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Often thought of as eternal, mountains are vulnerable to climate change and tourism. To protect them, they should be recognised for their cultural values, not just their natural characteristics.
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
Rising temperatures and extreme weather pose an existential threat to many UNESCO World Heritage sites, but widespread discussion is needed for meaningful change.
Researchers from the University of Oslo have drilled to the bottom of the Kongsvegen glacier. Find out why and how they are listening to the destabilisation of Arctic glaciers: The MAMMAMIA project.
If and when the Thwaites Glacier melts, it will result in nearly 0.6 metres of sea level rise, but it holds back another three metres of sea level rise lurking within the Antarctic continent. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Climate change will increase the frequency of both floods and droughts in Pakistan. To address these challenges, enhancing infrastructure, building dams and educating the public are necessary.
Antarctica’s ice shelves have helped insulate it from dangerous levels of ice loss. But this is changing.
The findings underscore the urgency of limiting global warming to below 1.5°C, to avert the most catastrophic climate harms.
The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.
Liquid water below the ice determines how fast an ice stream flows. As the ice sheet gets thinner, more of that salty groundwater could rise.
Rocks deposited by vanishing glaciers in the Southern Alps thousands of years ago hold climate clues about the past, painting a bleak picture about the long-term survival of alpine ice in New Zealand.
For the first time since satellites started studying the continent, East Antarctica has lost an entire ice shelf.
This seemingly one-off heatwave may be a harbinger for the future under climate change.
Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
A sea level scientist explains the two main ways climate change is threatening the coasts.
Glaciers in North America, Europe and the Andes, in particular, have significantly less ice than people realized.
A massive Antarctic ice shelf is showing signs of cracking and could trigger worldwide flooding.
Sea ice is thinning at an alarming rate. Snow is shifting to rain. And humans worldwide are increasingly feeling the impact of what happens in the seemingly distant Arctic.
Policy-makers need the courage to commit to meaningful reductions of greenhouse gas emissions if we want to avoid the widespread loss of mountain glaciers.
Top contributors
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Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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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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Research Fellow, Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Glaciology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Ocean and Ice Scientist, British Antarctic Survey
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Climate Scientist, British Antarctic Survey
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Change, University of Dundee
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Glaciologist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
