Explainer: what are ice cores?
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…
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From Noah’s flood to Shakespeare’s storms, what literature reveals about our changing relationship with the weather
Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?
The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
We should be building wildlife bridges on the US-Mexico border – not walls.
Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic – new research
New solutions to two interlinked mysteries reveal how and why the Antarctic’s enormous ice sheet formed.
The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future
New evidence shows a major climate shift ‘within a lifetime’ 13,000 years ago.
Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change
A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.
The ocean system that shapes Europe’s climate
What the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) does and how it shapes our climate.
Welcome to the ‘Homogenocene’: how humans are making the world’s wildlife dangerously samey
Just one of the many ways the Anthropocene is reshaping life on Earth.
DNA evidence proves climate change killed off prehistoric megafauna
Animals that couldn’t adapt to rapid warming quickly succumbed.
Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we’ll likely be here for a very long time
Large numbers, huge ranges, and adaptibility make the human species very difficult to eradicate
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