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Himalayan floods are natural, but poor planning turns rain into disaster. Reading the land could save lives.

Our research shows the Antarctic could be closer to a tipping point than previously thought.

One of Colombia’s most beautiful areas, El Cocuy National Natural Park was for years too dangerous to visit. No more.

The parable of the dragons underlines the need to apprehend glacier disappearance in a transdisciplinary way, to create a dialogue between the physical, ecological and philosophical sciences.

It’s well known that carbon in the atmosphere is causing global warming. What is less well known, outside of scientific circles at least, is the role oceans have to play in this. Our seas contain 60 times…

These lakes could threaten the future stability of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled from glaciers and ice sheets. When snow falls it takes with it a record of many aspects of the atmosphere. As long as no melting takes place, this information is…

Footprints get people thinking about their own impact, but for water the analogy simply doesn’t work.

Greenland’s glaciers have retreated so far that they can no longer support the ice sheet that feeds them. The ice sheet system has reached a new normal of consistent annual ice loss.

Unlike the more abstract idea of global climate change, pollution is tangible and its effects are obvious.