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Some glaciers can suddenly surge forward – with dangerous consequences
The surging Scheelebreen glacier in Svalbard advances into the frozen fjord, April 2022. Erik Schytt Mannerfelt, CC BY…
What are climate tipping points? They sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans, but there’s still room for optimism
Meltwater runs across the Greenland ice sheet in rivers. The ice sheet is already losing mass and could…
We built an AI model that analysed millions of images of retreating glaciers – what it found is alarming
BEST-BACKGROUNDS / shutterstock / NASA Tian Li, University of Bristol; Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, and Konrad Heidler,…
‘Unprecedented’ climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for what’s normal will need to change
Thomas Rosenzweig/Shutterstock Milton Speer, University of Technology Sydney and Lance M Leslie, University of Technology Sydney Extreme temperature…