Shrinking of Ice Shelves Raises Sea Level Concerns

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Mar 30, 2015 The rapid reduction of West Antarctica’s shelf ice has dangerous implications for sea levels in a warming world. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Deep Concerns as Climate Influences Gulf Stream Flow

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Mar 25, 2015 Ocean scientists find evidence of an increasing slowdown in the Atlantic’s “invisible river” that could seriously affect weather and sea levels in the U.S. and Europe. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Climate Data Gives Mixed Message on Storm Forecasts

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Feb 8, 2015 New research suggests that climate change won’t lead to more storms after all -- but the bad ones could be even more devastating. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Canada’s Polar Bears Face Food Crisis by 2100

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Nov 30, 2014 Due to the shrinkage of the sea ice, the survival of polar bears in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago is doubtful in around 80 years’ time. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ice Melt Dilutes Arctic Sea’s CO2 Cleanup Role

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Sep 27, 2014 New scientific research confirms that global warming is melting increasingly larger areas of Arctic sea ice -- and reducing its vital function of removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Nature Affects the Carbon Cycle

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Jun 1, 2014 As global temperatures warm, scientists say that in both Australia and the Arctic natural processes are at work to help mitigate the increased heat. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Greenland Ice May Melt Even Faster

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network May 25, 2014 The vulnerability of Greenland’s glaciers to global warming is even greater than feared, according to radar and satellite data analysed by U.S. research scientists -- and that's bad news for rising sea levels. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ocean Winds Put Heat on Australia

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network May 17, 2014 Winds of change caused by greenhouse gases in the Southern Ocean are keeping Antarctica cold but parching Australia by “stealing” more of its rainfall. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

East Antarctic Ice Basin ‘May Be At Risk’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network May 5, 2014 It looks unlikely to happen for a very long time, but German researchers say they have discovered how part of the East Antarctic ice sheet could start an inexorable melt. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Early Springs Surprise Many Species

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Apr 8, 2014 Several species are struggling to adapt to the increasingly early advent of spring, and some are finding it beyond them. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Climate Science Is ‘Beyond Argument’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 17, 2014 Beset by pollution, overfishing and often uncontrolled exploitation, the world's high seas are also under mounting pressure from climate change, a panel of international leaders says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Arctic ‘Is Set to Reach 13°C by 2100′

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Feb 20, 2014 Scientists in the U.S. expect the rise in temperature in the Arctic by the end of the century will be more than six times greater than the globally agreed safety threshold. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )