Glaciers
Google doodle marks Earth Day 2022 with stark images of climate crisis
Time-lapse satellite images show glacial retreat at Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, deforestation in Germany and Greenland glacial melt
Royce Kurmelovs
22, Apr, 2022 @3:29 AM
Many of New Zealand’s glaciers could disappear in a decade, scientists warn
Glaciers becoming ‘smaller and more skeletal’, annual end-of-summer survey of the snowline finds
Eva Corlett in Wellington
30, Mar, 2022 @11:27 PM
Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern
Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more
John Vidal
18, Dec, 2021 @8:00 AM
Antarctic visitors threaten world’s largest remaining wilderness
Visitors bring in foreign species that colonise ground exposed by rapidly melting glaciers
Jeremy Plester
07, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM
‘See these glaciers, before they melt’: living on the frontline of global heating
From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
Tess McClure Christchurch
10, Nov, 2021 @7:00 AM
Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secrets
Tory Shepherd
01, Sep, 2021 @5:30 PM
Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record
Precipitation was so unexpected, scientists had no gauges to measure it, and is stark sign of climate crisis
Damian Carrington Environment editor
20, Aug, 2021 @12:08 PM
Global water crisis will intensify with climate breakdown, says report
Flooding, droughts and wildfires will worsen as global heating disrupts the planet’s water cycle
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
17, Aug, 2021 @6:00 AM
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
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