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Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021
Even if snowfall rates returned to those of the 1980s, the ice sheet would continue to shrink. Image credit: Michalea King.

The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away

Nikk Ogasa 2 Dec 2020

IPCC special report finds oceans and cryosphere changing rapidly due to global warming

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2019

More than 50 lakes lie hidden beneath Greenland ice sheet, study finds

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

Here’s how much Antarctica’s melting ice is already contributing to sea level rise

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2018

Warmer winters increasing risk of avalanches in the Himalayas, studies find

Neha Jain 4 May 2018

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Max Nathanson 14 Dec 2017

Tipping point already reached? West Antarctica in slow-motion, unstoppable melt

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2014

Plants re-grow after five centuries under the ice

Tanya Dimitrova 27 May 2013

Mount Everest glaciers have shrunk 13% in 50 years

Mongabay.com 13 May 2013

Climate change melting glaciers in the Andes

Jeremy Hance 22 Jan 2013

Temperature in West Antarctica rising twice as fast as previously thought, finds study

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2012

Greenland and Antarctica ice melt accelerating, pushing sea levels higher

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2012

Canadian ice sheet responded rapidly to ancient climate change

Paul Gabrielsen 16 Nov 2012

Featured video: Chasing Ice trailer

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2012

Spike in glacier melt across Patagonia since 2000

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2012

NASA images reveal rapid loss of Indonesia’s glaciers

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2012

Greenland suffers record melt

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2012

Scientists discover ‘Grand Canyon’ of Antarctica buried deep in ice

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2012

Record 97 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet experienced melting in July

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2012

NASA satellite reveals iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaking off Greenland’s ice sheet

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2012

Melting ice sheets largest contributor to rising sea levels

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2011

Officials point to Russian drought and Asian deluge as consistent with climate change

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2010

‘Very dramatic’ changes in Greenland: ice loss spreads north

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2010

Photos: Giant iceberg breaks off Antarctica

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2010

Climate change melting southern Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2010

What would the Dalai Lama do?: spiritual leader speaks out on climate change

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Goodbye, snows of Kilimanjaro

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2009

Summer sea ice likely to disappear in the Arctic by 2015

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2009

Extremophiles discovered below Antarctic glacier are remnants of marine life

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2009

Cutting greenhouse gases now would save world from worst global warming scenarios

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2009

Glaciers decline in ice mass for 18th straight year

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2009

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