A dusty film of pollution is muting the reflective whiteness of Greenland's pristine icecap and making it vulnerable to accelerated melting rates, writes Tim Radford. And as warming continues, the declining reflectivity of the ice is accelerating the process.
… reflective whiteness of Greenland's pristine icecap and making it vulnerable to accelerated … is likely to accelerate the rate at which the icecap melts . The Greenland icecap covers 1.7 million square kilometres …
Former editor of New Scientist and author of After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic on climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances
… Change Natural World Climategate Arctic Icecap alun-portrait3.jpg Former editor of New … climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances Laura Sevier: The Arctic is …
Greenland's glaciers are more vulnerable to global warming than had previously been feared, reports Tim Radford, as ice bodies are undercut by seawater. The threat of rapidly rising sea levels just went up yet another notch.
… from beneath, global warming threatens the icecaps from above. Kaitlin Keegan, of …
During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
… this summer saw the second-highest Arctic icecap melt-rate (after last year’s record), …
Last election climate change was all the rage, writes David Williamson. But in the current campaign it's hardly getting a look in in spite of melting icecaps, collapsing glaciers, a wave of climate refugees fleeing Africa and serious weather events at home. Now it's up to us to force it onto the election agenda!
… hardly getting a look in in spite of melting icecaps, collapsing glaciers, a wave of …
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
… And the rising sea levels caused by melting icecaps will threaten Asian delta cities like …
Our Arts Editor, GARY COOK, travels with his sketchbook to one of the last remaining wilderness places on Earth - Antartica - and returns home humbled by the experience
… of which feature the sadly shrinking Arctic icecap, so this chance to see its bigger more …
The total collapse of glaciers in West Antarctica is 'inevitable', writes Tim Radford, as the southern hemisphere gets warmer and glaciers are undermined by seawater. The news has emerged from a new analysis of satellite data.
West Antarctic glaciers 'past the point of no return' Tim Radford | 23rd May 2014 News Oceans Antarctica Climate Change birth_of_an_iceberg-cut.jpg The total collapse of glaciers in West Antarctica …
Climate change skeptics have seized on the tale of the 'global warming scientists' stranded in Antarctica by a summer freeze-up. But Stephan Lewandowsky says there is more to the story than meets the eye ...
… are increasing around Antarctica, while the icecaps on Antarctica are known to melt. How …
It is estimated that by 2030, 92 per cent of Britons will live in cities. The CEO of charity Trees for Cities on why its so important but difficult to plant trees in our streets
… surrounded by news of global warming, melting icecaps and often feel daunted. But the most …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
… which is made up almost entirely by an icecap up to 3 km thick and contains 10% of …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… the biosphere. What value can you put on the icecaps, which regulate temperature and …
The Native American photographer Camille Seaman documents climate change effects on the Arctic and Antarctic. Her iceberg images are aesthetically pleasing, but the key message is that they may not be here for much longer
… climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE …
What started as a pub chat evolved into Greenpeace’s most audacious coup yet. Joss Garman reports on a plan to pull the carpet out from under BAA ’s third runway at Heathrow – by buying up the very land beneath its feet
… holding a giant blowtorch to the polar icecaps and saying “Melt! Melt!”’ McGowan said …
The Arctic is becoming a battleground as Russia, Norway, Canada and the US vie for access to oil, gas and minerals – campaigners fear safety and the environment will be the losers
… climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances one cannot exclude that in …
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, writes Ronnie Cummins, the 'mainstream' focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
… are levels that will gradually melt the polar icecaps, burn up the Amazon, spawn disastrous …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… garbage patches in the oceans to the melting icecaps to the dammed and polluted rivers? Of …