Global sea levels could rise due to melting Antarctic ice

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Scientists carrying out fieldwork in the region have assessed the landscape to determine how the West Antarctic ice sheet might respond to increasing global temperatures. In the first study of its kind, researchers were able to gauge how levels of ice covering the land have changed over hundreds of thousands of years. They did so …

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Volcanoes have an influence on global climate change

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Despite being one of the hottest things on the surface of the planet, volcanic eruptions actually helped to keep the oceans cool for 1,800-years before temperatures began to increase due to man-made global warming. Dr Vasile Ersek, from Northumbria University’s Department of Geography, was part of a 75-strong international team of researchers who found that …

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