The Arctic is greening
Three doctoral students from ETH Zurich traveled to Svalbard in July to study the effects of climate change on Arctic vegetation.
Three doctoral students from ETH Zurich traveled to Svalbard in July to study the effects of climate change on Arctic vegetation.
Everyone knows fire melts ice, but research seems to confirm that melting sea ice may also be contributing to the growing number of Northern Hemisphere wildfires
Although conditions in the Arctic are becoming more favorable with warming, shrubs may not spread as fast as previously thought.
Aerosols in the central Arctic play an important role in the formation of ice in clouds, with implications for climate.
Never before did scientists observe so many Antarctic fish with skin tumors
Two papers led by AWI summarize what is known about the effects of thawing permafrost in the Arctic and call for more action.
Uncontrolled ice loss from the two glaciers could contribute to sea level rise of up to 3.4 meters over the next few centuries.
Is marine life facing a mass extinction? Our ability to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions will probably determine that.
Including all types of emissions shrinks the time to reach the 1.5 degree target.
The bacteria and genes found could pose a global health risk as climate change progresses.
If the iron input to the Southern Ocean decreases in the future due to reduced carbon emissions, iron could become scarce.
Only ambitious climate protection can preserve one-third of the tundra in Siberia, according to an AWI study.
Favored by climate change, more peatlands could develop in the Arctic, which in turn could sequester more carbon dioxide and thus mitigate the greenhouse effect.
The trigger of the collapse of the two smaller parts A and B of the Larsen Ice Shelf was, according to the latest findings, warm and humid air currents.
Where there is still sufficient sea ice along the Antarctic Peninsula, Adélie penguin populations are also stable. Where it is now too warm, unfortunately not.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey identified the factors that play the most important role in the melting processes of the ice shelf.
Although no living thing is spared from climate change, Arctic wildlife is the most vulnerable. The Earth is warming 2.5 times faster than other parts of our planet.
Freshwater carried into the Atlantic by melting Arctic ice may have a smaller impact on the global conveyor belt of ocean currents.
Freshwater plumes of meltwater off the calving front apparently prevent large icebergs from calving as long as they persist.
Rapid ice loss in the Arctic is creating more and more open water, which emits more gases and aerosols that affect the climate.
Compared to West Antarctica, climate change has had little impact on East Antarctica. But this could now be over.
At both ends of the globe, heat waves with temperature differences of up to 40°C above average have completely surprised and amazed experts.
Peatlands in the Arctic permafrost belt are responding more strongly to warming than previously thought.
One of the world’s largest chunks of ice is generating incredible amounts of heat