
How we predicted global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years ago
11 December 2019
New Scientist was well ahead of the curve in 1979 when we warned that the 'so-called carbon dioxide greenhouse effect' threatened long-term climate change

11 December 2019
New Scientist was well ahead of the curve in 1979 when we warned that the 'so-called carbon dioxide greenhouse effect' threatened long-term climate change

5 June 2019
Climate change could release a torrent of carbon from the Arctic tundra into a warming world. To gauge the threat, ecologists have recruited the humble teabag

1 May 2019
The speed and scale of Arctic melting is shocking even hardened researchers – the need to act now has never been clearer, says our chief reporter Adam Vaughan

20 September 2018
As global warming melts the Arctic, all eyes are turning to the riches under the ice. But will polar bears survive the pollutants trickling into the food chain?