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Climate change scientists are heading to the Himalayas in a bid to become the first to successfully drill through the world’s highest glacier.An international research team will spend up to six weeks working at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres on the Khumbu glacier in Nepal and will be using a specially adapted car...
Global warming will thaw about 20% more permafrost than previously thought, scientists have warned; potentially releasing significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere. A new international research study, including climate change experts from the University of Leeds, University of Exeter and the Met Office, reveals that permafrost is more sensitive to the effects...
In a paper published on Monday 3 April, climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below potentially dangerous levels has a climate ‘payback’ much earlier than previously thought. Lead scientist Andrew Ciavarella explains: “Our study has shown that efforts to reduce global temperature rise...
Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, will be part of a panel of distinguished scientists participating in a livestreamed public meeting and debate on Saturday 18 March at the University of Aberdeen for British Science Week 2017 and Climate Week. The event, titled Science and Climate Change in an Alternative Facts...
Urgent action to reduce sea temperatures is needed, as 2015-2016 saw record highs that triggered a significant episode of coral bleaching across the tropics and particularly the Australian Great Barrier Reef, according to new research involving Leeds academics. Coral researchers are now carrying out new aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and...