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 sea level rise over the same period.
New research shows that lake “stratification periods” – a seasonal separation of water into layers – will last longer in a warmer climate.
Plants and animals that only live in one region – known as “endemic” species – are expected to be “consistently more adversely impacted” by climate change than their less specialised coun...
The provisional estimate from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado shows that this year’s winter maximum extent is 870,000km2 smaller than the 1981-2010 average.
Climate change is causing “lake heatwaves” to become more frequent, intense and long-lasting, a new study warns.
Greenland’s vast ice sheet could melt faster than previously thought over the 21st century, according to a new study.
Global sea level rise began to accelerate in the 1960s, 30 years earlier than suggested by previous assessments, a new study finds.
