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Antarctica has its own 'shield' against warm water—but this could now be under threat
A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...
Why Glaciers Won’t Recover – Even If We Cool the Planet
New projections show that temporarily overshooting this limit—even up to 3°C—would lock in severe and irreversible glacier ...
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As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing, causing floods, droughts, landslides and ...
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Glacier Recovery Could Take Centuries — Even If Warming Stops Now
Even if global temperatures eventually return to the 1.5°C target, glaciers worldwide will suffer irreversible loss.
Scientists reveal why giant explosive craters have emerged in Siberia
Over the last ten years, strange craters have torn open the icy ground of Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. These gaping holes, ...
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MIT Scientists Create a New Device That Can Extract Drinking Water Out Of Thin Air
Simply put, our home is collapsing, and the water supply is tailing off.   All methods of water harvesting, from fog ...
Glaciers will take centuries to recover even if global warming is reversed, scientists warn
New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries – even if human intervention cools the ...
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Glaciers could take centuries to recover from climate change overshoot
Some of the world’s largest glaciers may take thousands of years to regrow if global temperatures breach 1.5ºC of warming.
Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast
A team of geophysicists and atmospheric scientists at Princeton's NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the ...