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Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands

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7 January 20222 February 2022

The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests that its…Read More >

1.5 degree limit won’t save the earth’s ‘third pole’

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14 February 201915 November 2021

Even if we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees it will not be enough to prevent melting of the world’s third largest store of ice, in the Himalayas – and…Read More >

1.5 degree limit won’t save the earth’s ‘third pole’

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