Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Glacial Melt
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Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss
Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over the sustainability of global water resources, but global-scale assessments of glacier decline and the resulting
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Widespread moulin formation during supraglacial lake drainages in Greenland
<p>Moulins permit access of surface meltwater to the glacier bed, causing basal lubrication and ice speedup in the ablation zone of western Greenland during summer. Despite the substantial impact of moulins
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Finding climate change solutions offers big opportunity to private sector’
Climate change impact offers tremendous economic opportunities to the private sector. It can come up with local solutions to solve issues in agriculture and water utilisation, said Ronnie Coffman, Director
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Scientists drill into Antarctic ice to study global warming
CHENNAI: Travelling across thick layers of ice at a glacial pace and drilling a hole through a large ice shelf formed over an unexplored region of Antarctica, Indian scientists are inching closer to uncovering
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In Antarctica ice, hunt for climate change clues
Scientists measure ice rise dynamics over 4 weeks, say it can throw light on how ice flows into ocean It is a piece of a larger puzzle that begins with an ice rise in East Antarctica. Vikram Goel, 28,
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Home for 150 million at risk of inundation
Melting polar ice due to global warming poses an existential threat to humanity. New research on the melting of Antarctic ice sheets has suggested a dramatically faster pace of melting than is currently
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Warming, melting Arctic is 'new normal'
MIAMI: An increasingly warm Arctic, where temperatures rise twice as fast as the rest of the planet and ice melts at an alarming pace is the "new normal," warned a global scientific report on Tuesday.
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How melting of ice in Arctic Sea is causing droughts in California
Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing
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Global warming to claim 33% of ice volume in Hindu Kush Himalayan region: Expert
KATHMANDU: Global warming is not only posing a serious threat to glaciers, it will also result in a loss of 33 per cent of total ice volume in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region by the end of the century,
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Dip in CO2 levels 1 million years ago cooled Earth, led to glacier growth: Study
A new study has shown that decreasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere led to a phenomenon of increased global cooling one million years ago. A decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels