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Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought

27 Jun 2024

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted...

Ali Banwell and Laura Stevens installing the time-lapse camera used in this study on the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes

03 May 2024

Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse

First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds

25 May 2022

Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.

Artists’s impression of the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b

Cambridge launches new Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe

10 Jan 2022

With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring the...

Emissions from melting permafrost could cost $43 trillion

21 Sep 2015

New analysis of the effects of melting permafrost in the Arctic points to $43 trillion in extra economic damage by the end of the next century, on top...

University of Colorado

Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought

Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes

First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds

Cambridge launches new Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe

Emissions from melting permafrost could cost $43 trillion

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