Climate change has driven 16% drop in ‘snow meltwater’ from Asia’s high mountains
Climate change is reducing the supply of water from melting snow to many of the largest rivers in Asia, threatening the water security of millions of... Read More
Melting glaciers drove ‘21% of sea level rise’ over past two decades
Glacier melt across the world has accelerated over the past two decades, a new study finds, with the resulting meltwater accounting for 21% of global... Read More
Guest post: Identifying three ‘tipping points’ in Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier
Antarctica may seem far away for most of us, yet this remote continent contains enough ice to raise sea levels around the world by tens of metres. It... Read More
Factcheck: Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?
On Sunday 7 February, a sudden flood devastated a Himalayan valley in the Indian province of Uttarakhand. It tore through two hydroelectric dams, kil... Read More
Guest post: How climate change threatens a Peruvian city with ‘glacial flood’
The worldwide retreat of mountain glaciers is one of the most visible impacts of climate change. In the wake of receding glaciers, thousands of lakes... Read More
New climate models suggest faster melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Greenland’s vast ice sheet could melt faster than previously thought over the 21st century, according to a new study. The Greenland ice sheet is... Read More
Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
The scale of loss from the Greenland ice sheet will be higher this century than in any other over the past 12,000 years, a new study concludes. Ho... Read More
Guest post: How climate change is turning glaciers into lakes
Lakes formed by melting glaciers around the world have increased in size by 50% over the past 30 years. That is the main finding of our new ... Read More
‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
The rapidly evolving scientific field of “extreme event event attribution” has detected the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on a wide ... Read More
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere
Earlier today in Monaco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing c... Read More
Cold-war spy photos reveal ‘doubling’ of glacier ice loss in Himalayas
The rate of glacier retreat in the Himalayas has doubled since the late 20th century, a new study finds. By comparing modern-day satellite data to ... Read More
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