Tag: melting ice

• Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:58 UTC

  Today Tuvalu’s Climate change visas; tomorrow extensive to the World’s?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some hope and some dignity, and it would certainly be an improvement on the current migration mess.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 08:06 UTC

  Trying to understand the melting process of the largest ice shelf in Antarctica

  

  A new study by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has used computer modeling to rank the factors responsible for the Larsen C ice shelf melt according to their severity. The review is an important contribution to the understanding of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Russian navy has discovered five new islands revealed by melting ice in the Arctic

  

  Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had discovered five new islands revealed by melting glaciers in the remote Arctic. An expedition in August and September charted the islands, which have yet to be named and were previously hidden under glaciers, said the head of the northern fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseyev.