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In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that a quarter of its glacier ice is now affected, according to a new study. By combining 25 years of European Space Agency satellite altimeter measurements and a model of the regional climate, the UK Centre for Polar...
A new study showing that Greenland ice disappeared during periods in the Earth’s history has implications for the rate of melting and projected sea level rise. Dr Lauren Gregoire, an ice sheet modeller with the School of Earth and Environment, is quoted in this story for InsideClimate News, which highlights the research by paleoclimatologist Joerg...
Professor Liane Benning and Dr Jim McQuaid from the School of Earth and Environment told BBC weather presenter Keeley Donovan about their experiences researching ice melt in Greenland on The Weather Show on BBC Radio Leeds (13 August). The researchers, who were taking part in the Black and Bloom project on the Greenland ice sheet, which...