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Surface lake on the Greenland ice sheet. Credit: CF Dow

Seismic surveys challenge the view that recent slowdowns in Greenland’s ice flow will continue in the long term, says a new study.

View of the A68 iceberg from a European Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image acquired on 30/07/2017

The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month.

Geochemistry in the field: Stefanie Lutz and Liane Benning working on a glacier in Greenland.

The Cohen geochemistry group are presenting at Goldschmidt 2017 in Paris, details of talks and posters can found below.

View from British Antarctic Survey Rothera research station, on Alexander Island at the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: A.E. Hogg/CPOM

Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change to be only a third of what was recently reported.

Image of an African desert - Francoise Guichard, Laurent Kergoat, CNRS Photo Library

Global warming is responsible for tripling the frequency of extreme West African Sahel storms over the last three decades putting numerous cities in the region at risk, say scientists.