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...
Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse
The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew...
The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower.
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing...
Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their...
Using satellite data to ‘see in the dark’, researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter, a...
The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea level rise, is potentially becoming unstable because of...
Human activity is currently a bigger threat to mangroves, and the natural defences they provide against storm surges and other coastal disasters...
