Scientists used satellites to map tens of thousands of glacial landforms in Antarctica’s highest mountains.
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Mountain systems are sensitive to climate change. Loss of snow and ice sets off effects which have wide ranging consequences.
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℃, 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.
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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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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Change, University of Dundee
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Research Fellow in the Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, Geography, University of Aberdeen
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Science, University of Reading
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Professor of Geography and the Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Researcher, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, Environmental Science, James Cook University
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Professor of Dynamics of the Climate System, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol
