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
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
Ice memory: What ice cores tell us about Earth’s environmental history
18 June 2021
Glacial ice records all manner of precious information about the planet’s environmental history, but it is melting fast.
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
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
People have built a glacier in the desert using a huge tower of ice
22 January 2020
An artificial glacier has been built by local people in the Himalayan desert of Ladakh to provide water
Antarctica's doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
15 January 2020
A massive research effort is under way to understand Antarctica's Thwaites glacier before it is too late. If it collapses, it could trigger catastrophic sea level rise, putting London and New York at risk
Special report: How climate change is melting France’s largest glacier
18 September 2019
As the UN prepares its report on the fate of the world’s ice, Adam Vaughan visits the dramatically changing landscape of Mer de Glace near Mont Blanc
