Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research
If all glaciers melt, sea level will rise by about 24cm. If the polar ice sheets melt, sea level will rise by more than 65m; almost 300 times more.
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How climate change might trigger more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Climate change is causing increasingly severe weather – but it’s not just hazards at the Earth’s surface we should be concerned about.
How satellites revolutionised climate change science
From space, scientists can track everything from sea levels or greenhouse gases to infectious bacteria or water stored underground.
Ice ‘lightning’ may have helped life survive Snowball Earth
Scientists have figured out how microbes may have found food when trapped beneath ice for millions of years.
Revealed: how a wobbly axis helped our planet escape ‘snowball Earth’
Glaciers once covered most of Earth’s surface and reflected the sun’s heat back into space.
Climate change: as mountain regions warm, hydroelectric power plants may be vulnerable
Dams built in an earlier age are suddenly vulnerable as the climate shifts.
Frozen plants from the Little Ice Age regenerate spontaneously
Retreating glaciers are proving to be good news for plant scientists. Underneath one such glacier on Ellesmere Island in Canada, researchers have found plants they believe have regrown after being entombed…
How satellites are helping us to understand deadly avalanches
Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
The inevitability of sea level rise
Small numbers can imply big things. Global sea level rose by a little less than 0.2 metres during the 20th century – mainly in response to the 0.8 °C of warming humans have caused through greenhouse gas…
Writing long reads for The Conversation can be ‘instrumental’ in developing research – Insights story updates
Our expert authors explain the value in bringing the story of their research to a much wider audience.
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