Antarctica’s past shows region’s vulnerability to climate change

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Fresh understanding of West Antarctica has revealed how the region’s ice sheet could become unstable in a warming world. Scientists studying the region’s landscape have determined how it reacted to a period of warming after the coldest point of the most recent Ice Age, some 21,000 years ago. The study, carried out in collaboration with …

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Opposing mountain ranges

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In the future, people in the Himalayas will have to contend with flooding, while those in the Andes will have longer dry spells and less water. These are the conclusions drawn by ETH and Northumbria University researchers, who have used measurement data and climate models to closely examine water balance in both of these mountain …

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