ESA – World’s ice is melting faster than ever As global temperatures increase, the melting of the massive ice sheets that blanket Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated, making a significant contribution to sea-level rise. In total, Earth is losing around…
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A glacier in West Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the COP26 climate change conference. The Scottish city will welcome more than 100 world leaders to COP26, the 26th UN Climate…
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CPOM contributed to the European State of the Climate 2020 report, an annual report compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and implemented by ECMWF on behalf of the European Commission. This year, we contributed to two sections: the…
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CPOM Director Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) and CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King’s College London) feature on BBC One’s documentary ‘Greta Thunberg – A Year to Change the World’ 12th April 2021 part one of a three-part documentary…
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Article first published by University of Leeds Glaciers in West Antarctica are moving more quickly from land into the ocean, contributing to rising global sea levels. A 25-year record of satellite observations has been used to show widespread increases…
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The Government of the British Antarctic Territory has announced 28 new place names in the Territory today to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica. All of the names on the list were chosen to honour people who…
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COMING SOON (early 2021) ESA has created a new online course, ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’, led by CPOM and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Course Educators Professor Andrew Shepherd, CPOM Director, is the lead educator on the online course…
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Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm to global sea level rise this century. From University of Leeds press release, 17th September The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison…
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Research attention score: Article from University of Leeds: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching worst-case climate warming scenarios. According to a…
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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. As a result, this will lead to an extra 17 centimetres of sea level…
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