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Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Copernicus / ESA, CC BY Thanh-Son Pham, Australian National University Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake…
In 2024, the climate crisis worsened in all ways. But we can still limit warming with bold action
abstractaerialart/Getty Thomas Newsome, University of Sydney and William Ripple, Oregon State University Climate change has been on the…
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…
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…
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
Hamish Clarke, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests…
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
Hamish Clarke, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests…
Vanishing waters in a warming world
In some places, the Caspian Sea has already retreated 50km. S. Melkin / shutterstock Will de Freitas, The…
New 30-year data shows ocean mass drives sea level rise
A new 30-year analysis of satellite data confirms that increasing ocean mass from melting land ice is the primary driver of global sea level rise.
70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations
DeAgostini/Getty Images James Watson, The University of Queensland; Maximilian Kotz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), and…
56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators
Vera Korasidis, The University of Melbourne and Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in…