Glaciers
Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects
Damian Carrington Environment editor
03, Jun, 2021 @4:34 PM
Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study
Scientists say ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise is probably already doomed to melt
Damian Carrington Environment editor
17, May, 2021 @7:00 PM
Melting ice reveals first world war relics in Italian Alps
Accelerating retreat of glaciers in Lombardy and Trentino Alto-Aldige reveals preserved history of ‘White War’
Angela Giuffrida in Stelvio national park
04, May, 2021 @6:00 AM
Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear
Global phenomenon known as river piracy demands urgent adaptation from ecosystems and people who rely on their flow
Jenna Kunze
03, May, 2021 @9:10 AM
Cold truths about vanishing glaciers | Brief letters
Brief letters: Losing glaciers | India’s Covid statistics | Singing blackbirds | Prime minister’s answers | Graces Jones’ perfect song
Letters
02, May, 2021 @3:29 PM
‘It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self’: funeral for an Oregon glacier
Worried researchers hold ceremony for Clark glacier to illustrate how climate crisis is eroding icepacks
Oliver Milman
02, May, 2021 @1:00 PM
Glaciers in retreat: tracking the decline of the Earth’s ‘rivers of ice’
Images record how the climate crisis is affecting glaciers across the globe
02, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
Glacial lakes threaten millions with flooding as planet heats up
More than 12,000 deaths have already been attributed to glacial lake outburst floods worldwide
Neelima Vallangi in Kathmandu
02, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
As glaciers disappear in Alaska, the rest of the world’s ice follows
Mountain glacier melt contributes more than a quarter of extra volume to the world’s oceans, disrupting ancient cycles of creation
Jonathan Watts
01, May, 2021 @9:30 AM
How glaciers are shrinking at an ever faster pace
Analysis: glaciers are on average 8 metres thinner and many have vanished completely because of global heating
Mona Chalabi
01, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
The man on a mission to reveal the ‘souls’ of vanishing glaciers
American adventurer Garrett Fisher flies in a ramshackle antique plane, dangling his camera out of the window to capture the beauty of glaciers before they disappear
Patrick Barkham
30, Apr, 2021 @11:00 AM
Antarctic ‘doomsday glacier’ may be melting faster than was thought
Study finds more relatively warm water is reaching Thwaites glacier than was previously understood
Matthew Taylor
30, Apr, 2021 @10:40 AM
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