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A collapsing glacier destroyed a Swiss village. Is climate change to blame?
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...
Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in ...
Swiss glacier collapse highlights growing global danger as ice melt accelerates with climate change
Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to ...
Saving twice the ice by limiting global warming
A new study with ETH Zurich finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier ...
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Save twice the ice by limiting global warming
A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...
Antarctica's sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it
Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...
Climate change: no reprieve from heat this decade as globally agreed 1.5°C limit looms
In a new analysis, the World Meteorological Organization has predicted that global average warming will remain above 1.5°C ...
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melting ice
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...