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Scientists have pinpointed the key factors that allow pockets of warm seawater to flow beneath the Antarctic ice shelves, melting the ice from below and destabilizing glaciers inland. The research, led by the University of Cambridge, used a remarkably detailed model simulation to show how seasonal changes in wind strength...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge were involved in a global study that pieced together events leading up to the devastating Sikkim Flood in India. The results show that human activity played a key role in the multihazard sequence. On October 3 rd , 2023, a large glacial lake in Sikkim, northeastern India, broke...

Increasing greenhouse gas emissions are warming our planet at an unprecedented rate and scale. While anthropogenic warming has no direct historical parallel, warm episodes in Earth’s history can offer clues as to the future. A team of ice core scientists led by Cambridge University wanted to find out what happened to the...