International Summit releases urgent call to scale up action for planet’s ice regions. The One Planet- Polar Summit that brought together for the first time experts and leaders from over […]
Research exploring environmental impact of N. Sea sand extraction. In the coming years, a broad consortium of research institutes and companies will be working on the ecological optimisation of sand […]
Melting Antarctic ice sheet could lead to 0.5m sea level rise. The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could contribute half a metre of sea-level rise in the coming century, […]
Impacts of climate change on oceans. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted on 10 December two resolutions on Oceans and Law of the Seas and on Sustainable Fisheries. In this […]
Historic CO2 level warning. Present CO2 levels caused 20-metre-sea-level rise in the past. Around three million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, up to one third of Antarctica’s ice sheets […]
Scottish scientists have shown how giant subsea waves add to Greenland melt. The waves below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean are contributing to the increasing melt rate on the […]