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World’s climate change progress since 2019 is mostly bad news
• 4 years agoA global price for carbon needs to be high enough to induce decarbonisation across industry.
Glacier blood: Spring time in the French Alps cause algae blooms that turn the snow red
• 4 years agoWhile snow-algae blooms are poorly understood, the fact they are happening is probably not a good sign and researchers have begun surveying the Alps.
Five satellite images that show how fast and drastically the Earth is changing
• 4 years agoSatellite data is useful to provide global observations of key components of the climate system and biosphere that are essential for our understanding of how the planet is changing.
Iceland lost 750 sq km of glaciers over the last two decades due to global warming
• 4 years agoExperts have previously warned that Iceland's glaciers are at risk of disappearing entirely by 2200.
Limiting global warming to 1.5C can halve rise in sea levels due to ice melt: Study
• 4 years agoWhile around 220,000 glaciers make up only one percent of ice on the planet but contribute as much as a fifth of sea-level rise.
Whale pod breaks migration pattern, scientists believe it's an effect of climate change
• 4 years agoAnother explanation is "predator avoidance," with the bowheads steering clear of orca whales.
Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 1994 and 2017: study
• 4 years agoThe rate of loss has risen from 0.8 trillion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 1.3 trillion tonnes per year by 2017.
Greenland's melting ice sheets will soon face point of no return due to climate change
• 4 years agoThe researchers said despite seasonal periods of growth, Greenland has lost 3.5 trillion tons of ice since 2003.
Massive chunk of Greenland's ice caps has broken off, falls into the sea; evidence of rapid climate change
• 5 years agoThe ice came off a fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and is around 110 square kilometres big.
Climate change causes Canada's last remaining 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf to break apart into iceberg islands
• 5 years agoTemperatures from May to early August in the region have been five degrees Celsius warmer than the 1980 to 2010 average.