Could resurrecting mammoths help stop Arctic emissions?

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If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch, otherwise known …

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Northumbria receives £754,000 to help establish how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

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Researchers from Northumbria University have been awarded £754,000 to take part in one of the most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken. A new £20 million research collaboration has been announced between the UK and USA to gather data on the Thwaites Glacier, with the aim of establishing whether the …

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