The state of the climate in 2021
After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021.
NASA Finds What a Glacier’s Slope Reveals About Greenland Ice Sheet Thinning
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level rise...
The Big Thaw
So far, the results have been positively chilling. When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers....
Shift to a Not-So-Frozen North Is Well Underway, Scientists Warn
“There is no reason to think that in 30 years much of anything will be as it is today,” one of the editors of a...
Sailing to the Antarctic Peninsula
An iceberg roughly the size of Delaware that is headed toward the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia has experts worried about the possibility of it...
Why are glaciers and sea ice melting?
Glaciers around the world can range from ice that is several hundred to several thousand years old and provide a scientific record of how climate has...
Greenland’s Retreating Glaciers Could Impact Local Ecology
A new study of Greenland’s shrinking ice sheet reveals that many of the island’s glaciers are not only retreating, but are also undergoing other physical...
Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say