Icebergs don’t just pose a risk to ships – they have a profound impact on the natural world and human societies.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Glacier retreat
Displaying all articles
To fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus on organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
Meltwater rivers in the European Alps will change as glaciers melt – threatening animals that are vital for alpine ecosystems with habitat loss.
Seafloor landforms reveal that ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres per day.
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
Pakistan contributes less than one per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but has disproportionately felt the impact of climate change.
Water is central to adapting to climate change, but very few of the strategies put in place to respond to water hazards or ensure its availability have been evaluated.
From the high Yukon to the mountains of Central Asia, melting ice exposes fragile ancient artifacts that tell the story of the past – and provide hints about how to respond to a changing climate.
Dams built in an earlier age are suddenly vulnerable as the climate shifts.
Our research found these remote Arctic islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Massive landslides can trigger destructive and deadly tsunamis, and climate change could make them worse.
The heatwave highlights the connectedness of our climate systems: from the monsoon tropics to the southernmost continent.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide are now 147% above pre-industrial levels, according to a definitive report by the World Meteorological Organisation released today.
Meltwater lakes forming at the head of glaciers are causing them to shrink faster, which will affect the flow of big rivers that supply millions of people downstream in Asia.
Top contributors
-
Principal Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Brighton
-
Reader in Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University
-
Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
-
Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
-
Professor, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
-
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Change, University of Dundee
-
Executive Director, Pacific Water Research Centre, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University
-
Research officer, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Beaty Water Research Centre, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Research Fellow School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
-
Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
-
Marketing and Communications, University of Wollongong
