Climate Change
Climate change has driven 16% drop in ‘snow meltwater’ from Asia’s high mountains
Climate change is reducing the supply of water from melting snow to many of the largest rivers in Asia - by 16% across the region in the past 40 years.
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Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study
Clouds could have a greater cooling effect on the planet than climate models currently suggest, due to previous underestimation, according to new research.
Water
Satellite data reveals impact of warming on global water cycle
Research shows that evotranspiration - the transfer of water from ground to air - increased globally by 10% between 2003 and 2019, due to climate change.
Climate Change
Melting glaciers drove ‘21% of sea level rise’ over past two decades
A study has found that global glacier melt has increased over the past 20 years with annual rates of glacier thinning 'nearly doubling' from 2000-2019.
Climate Change
Climate change could cause ‘irreversible impacts’ to lake ecosystems
Scientists expect that the average seasonal lake stratification could last almost two weeks longer by the end of the century due to climate change effects.
Climate Change
Climate change will hit ‘endemic’ plants and animals the hardest, study warns
New research has shown that plants and animals that only live in one region - know as 'endemic species' - will be more adversely afffected by climate change.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2021 is joint-seventh lowest on record
Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year. Here scientists explain what that means and put this year's figure in context.
Climate Change
Lake heatwaves will be ‘hotter and longer’ by the end of the century
A new study published in Nature, has found that lake heatwaves could become up to 12 times longer by the end of the century, and up to 1.7C hotter.
Plastics and the Environment
New climate models suggest faster melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
A new study published in Nature Communications, shows that Greenland’s ice sheet could melt faster than previously thought over the 21st century.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Global sea-level rise began accelerating ‘30 years earlier’ than previously thought
Melting ice and ocean warming has caused sea levels to rise by around 20cm over the 20th century. But scientists have just discovered sea levels started rising in the 1960s, not the 1990s.