Nearly 700 ‘natural thermometers’ demonstrate the world is warmer than its ever been

Planet Earth is warmer than it has been for at least 2,000 years, according to a study that took its temperature from 692 different “natural thermometers” on every continent and ocean on the planet. In the most comprehensive assessment of how the climate has changed over the period to date, researchers looked at a host …

How stable is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

Professor David Sugden, Dr Andrew Hein and Professor John Woodward have combined their complementary expertise to shed light on the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during previous interglacial periods. Knowing how ice sheets have behaved in the past enables us to better predict the degree of ice melt and sea-level rise in the …