Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street
Cavernous 18th-century store reveals link to lost trade in ice blocks from Norwegian lakes Esther Addley Guardian, Fri 28 Dec 2018 The inside of a rediscovered ice house near Regent’s … Continue reading
Arctic permafrost thawing faster than ever, US climate study finds
Sea ice also melting at fastest past in 1,500 years, US government scientists find ‘The Arctic is a very different place than it was even a decade ago’ – author … Continue reading
Eight mountain climbers die in accidents in Austrian and Italian Alps
Five mountain climbers, thought to be German, died in the Austrian Alps and three Italians died in the Italian Alps Mountain peaks in the Austrian Alps. Photograph: Image Broker/Rex Features … Continue reading
Russian tanker sails through Arctic without icebreaker for first time
Climate change has thawed Arctic enough for $300m gas tanker to travel at record speed through northern sea route The Christophe de Margerie carried a cargo of liquefied natural gas … Continue reading
Melting glaciers in Swiss Alps could reveal hundreds of mummified corpses
Frozen bodies of couple who vanished 75 years ago among those uncovered recently as global warming forces ice to retreat The remains of a Swiss couple found preserved in a … Continue reading
Museum risks wrath of Inuit with display from tragic Arctic voyage in search of North-West Passage
Exhibition may solve riddle of Franklin’s lost expedition HMS Erebus stuck in the ice in 1848. Photograph: Andrew Holt/National Maritime Museum Vanessa Thorpe Guardian, Sunday 2 July 2017 After … Continue reading
The latest threat to Antarctica: an insect and plant invasion
Rise in tourism and warmer climate bring house flies – and the growth of mosses in which they can live An Adélie penguin near the Antarctic’s McMurdo research station. Rising … Continue reading
Giant Antarctic iceberg ‘hanging by a thread’, say scientists
Split in the Larsen C ice shelf will release an iceberg a quarter of the size of Wales, changing the landscape of the Antarctic peninsula An aerial view of the … Continue reading
Drastic cooling in North Atlantic beyond worst fears, scientists warn
Climatologists say Labrador Sea could cool within a decade before end of this century, leading to unprecedented disruption, reports Climate News Network Ice covering the ocean surface along lower Baffin … Continue reading
Europe faces droughts, floods and storms as climate change accelerates
Europe and northern hemisphere are warming at faster pace than the global average and ‘multiple climatic hazards’ are expected, says study Arthur Neslen Guardian, Wednesday 25 January 2017 Europe’s Atlantic-facing … Continue reading
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