Cropped 22 November 2023: COP28 curtain-raiser; Food security fear; Dust, bugs and ice
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and ...
Tag: Ice
Q&A: Warming of 2C would trigger ‘catastrophic’ loss of world’s ice, new report says
Global warming of 2C would see “extensive, long-term essentially irreversible” losses from the Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers, warns a ...
What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Penn State geologist ...
Northern Greenland’s ice shelves are declining, accelerating sea level rise
November 7, 2023 at 11:18 a.m. ESTA crack in Greenland’s 79 North ice shelf in 2018. (Alfred Wegener Institute/Ole Zeising)Comment ...
Melting ice takes center stage – DW – 11/08/2023
The cryosphere, which refers to the frozen parts of the planet, currently comprises almost 10% of the Earth's surface. But ...
A Major Alarm Is Flashing Under Greenland’s Ice
Climate change would be much worse if it weren’t for the oceans, which have absorbed 90 percent of the excess ...
DeBriefed 27 October 2023: Antarctic ice melt ‘unavoidable’; EV factcheck; China-Russia fossil fuel trade
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This is an online ...
West Antarctic ice sheet faces ‘unavoidable’ melting, a warning for sea level rise
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveAccelerating ice losses are all but “unavoidable” this century in vulnerable West Antarctic ...
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2023
The Greenland ice sheet melt season 2023 is now over and it completes a 27th year in a row in ...
Antarctica has lost 7.5tn tonnes of ice since 1997, scientists find | Antarctica
More than 40% of Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk since 1997 with almost half showing “no sign of recovery”, a ...
