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15 million people live in possible flood path for melting glaciers

7 February 2023

Glacial lakes can cause flooding if an ice or rock dam holding back the water fails, putting an estimated 15 million people at risk, an analysis has found

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Cold blob in Atlantic may be slowing ice loss from Iceland’s glaciers

11 February 2022

Iceland’s glaciers are melting as a consequence of climate change, but the rate of loss has fallen in the past decade, perhaps because a blob of cold water in the Atlantic is cooling the island

Glacier in the Fitz Roy Mountain Range, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina.

Thin glaciers suggest Andes faces 'peak water' sooner than thought

7 February 2022

A new global analysis suggests glaciers in the Andes contain less ice than we thought – but the glaciers of the Himalayas are thicker

Svalbard glacier ice loss projected to roughly double by 2100

19 January 2022

Archive photos of the Norwegian archipelago's glaciers enabled researchers to reconstruct past melting and project ice mass loss under future climate change

I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life

5 May 2021

There are many methane-producing microbes that live under glaciers and we still have much to learn about their climate impact, says Jemma Wadham

Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

5 May 2021

The amount of sea level rise coastal cities are facing in the coming century from melting ice could be roughly halved if the world meets the Paris Agreement’s toughest goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C

Eastern Alps may have been ice-free in the time of Ötzi the Iceman

17 December 2020

Ice cores from a glacier just 12 kilometres from the place the mummified Ötzi the Iceman was found in 1991 suggest that it formed just before or even within his lifetime

2020 in review: Extreme weather seen around the world as climate warms

16 December 2020

Climate change is having a clear impact on the weather, as storms, floods and fires are all becoming more likely and records keep tumbling

Part of a vital Antarctic glacier has unexpectedly stopped thinning

21 November 2019

A UK team was surprised to find that, in the past six years, a glacier in the Antarctic has virtually paused thinning at its end, but a neighbouring glacier hasn't