Glaciers are mighty rivers of ice that can carry boulders on their backs and grind valleys into rugged mountain ranges. But now, scientists say that humans might need to think about trying to engineer these formidable forces of nature. For the hundreds of millions of people who live alongside the world’s coasts, the scariest sea-level-rise
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The ice in Antarctica has lost around 3,000 billion tons since 1992 – and the melting is progressing faster. For…
How will rising sea levels affect world’s coastal cities? This ever more urgent question was addressed by a team of…
The Larsen C ice shelf crack has now begun to spread faster and branches out, researchers announced this Wednesday. As…
The arctic region could be almost completely ice-free during summer in 20 years already, researchers warn in new report. The…
Independent measurements made at Berkley University shows that the temperatures of the world’s oceans have risen twice as fast compared…
Danish and American researchers that monitor satellites and weather stations in the Arctic report that the temperature has been at…
Earth’s land mass has been expanded with an area equivalent to Northern Ireland during the past 30 years, according to…
The world greenhouse gas emissions could result in an increase of sea levels by 25 to 50 meters. This according…
Within 20 years we will probably see the consequences of melting ice masses in West Antarctica. Sea Levels Will Rise…
The oceans have risen by an average of 8 centimeters (3,1 inches) since 1992. This is due to warmer water…
A huge iceberg has broken off Antarctica and is floating freely in the ocean according to German scientists. It broke…