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'The Day After Tomorrow' film foretold a real and troubling trend: The Atlantic ocean's circulation system is weakening
New research suggests the type of climate shift depicted in the film "The Day After Tomorrow" is po…
Aylin Woodward
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The amount of warming that world leaders collectively agreed to avoid? It's inevitable in the next 20 years, a new report suggests.
In the Paris agreement, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A new …
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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A renowned climate scientist once compared to 'an icy Indiana Jones' has died after falling through ice thinned by melting
One of the world's leading climate scientists died on Saturday after falling through part of Greenl…
Susie Neilson
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The summit of Greenland got rain, rather than snow, for the first time on record
Melting on Greenland, which has the largest ice mass in the northern hemisphere, contributes to ris…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Wildfires in California and Siberia are throwing soot into the high atmosphere that's landing in the Arctic and melting polar ice
Scientists are working to understand the impact of this effect on the Arctic's ice yearly renewal a…
Marianne Guenot
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Researchers discovered a hidden Antarctic landscape under a layer of ice over a mile thick that shows how different the continent looked millions of years ago
There are ancient hills and valleys preserved under a thick layer of ice in Antarctica. The frozen …
Jenny McGrath
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The Earth has tilted on its axis differently over the last few decades due to melting ice caps
Scientists say the Earth's axis tilt has changed due to melting ice caps over the last few decades.
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists have revived 'zombie' bugs and viruses before that were trapped in ancient ice. One may have been 8 million years old.
Scientists have previously revived ancient bacteria and prehistoric viruses that had been trapped i…
Marianne Guenot
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Greenland's ice sheet is melting 7 times faster than it was in the early 90s, a study shows. It has lost more than 4.2 trillion tons of ice.
This summer, extreme melting followed the hottest month ever recorded (July), as an intense heat wa…
Aylin Woodward
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Enough ice melted in Greenland over the last 2 days it could cover the entire surface area of Florida in 4 inches of water
The largest ice mass in the northern hemisphere lost more than 8.5 billion tons of surface mass on …
Vanessa Gu
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Watch what would happen if all the ice on Earth melted overnight
The rest of that 1% is hanging out underground, mostly in the Arctic tundra, as something called pe…
Andrea Schmitz,Bob Hunt
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About 3 trillion tonnes of Antarctic ice has melted over the past 25 years
Antarctica is shedding ice at an alarming rate. Using the data recorded by satellites, researchers …
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Hot rock under Antarctica may be melting some of its ice sheets from the bottom-up
Something else is buoying the region, and recent seismic imaging - essentially 3D-radar for Earth's…
Dave Mosher
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There's a cavity underneath Antarctica that's two thirds the size of Manhattan - a sign ice sheets are melting faster than we thought
Antarctica is ringed by a skirt of ice sheets and floating ice shelves that provide a buffer betwee…
Aylin Woodward
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Ice sheets are melting far faster than we thought - in a worst-case climate breakdown, coastal cities like New York and Shanghai would be swamped
In that case, major coastal cities like London, New York, and Shanghai would be threatened by extre…
Aylin Woodward
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'Doomsday' glacier which could raise sea levels by several feet if melted — is 'holding on by its fingernails' says new study
Using a new sea floor mapping technique, scientists found the Thwaites "Doomsday" glacier had retre…
Mia Jankowicz
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Greenland's ice is melting at the rate scientists thought would be our worst-case scenario in 2070
The dramatic melt suggests that Greenland's ice sheet is approaching a tipping point that could set…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Newly discovered fossil footprints show humans were in North America thousands of years earlier than we thought
Researchers once thought humans couldn't have migrated down from Siberia into North America during …
Aylin Woodward
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If All The Ice On Earth Melted, The Destruction Would Be Unimaginable [MAPS]
Sources: Philippe Huybrechts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Richard. Williams, Jr., Woods Hole Resear…