Together with colleagues, Lars H. Smedsrud, professor at UiB and researcher at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, have examined 100 years of research results to see how the ocean transport has evolved.
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2022
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The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2021
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A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world's most southern continent will be countered by an increase in snowfall, associated with a warmer Polar atmosphere. Using modern methods to calculate projected changes ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2021
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After three years of writing and two weeks of virtual negotiations to approve the final wording, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that changes are happening ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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A new study published today in Global Change Biology provides valuable new data that highlights how species extinction risk is accelerating due to rapid climate change and an increase in extreme climate events, such as glacial ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2021
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Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to fill nearly five million Olympic-size swimming pools each year, research shows.
Environment
Aug 2, 2021
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Greenland's ice sheet has experienced a "massive melting event" during a heatwave that has seen temperatures more than 10 degrees above seasonal norms, according to Danish researchers.
Environment
Jul 31, 2021
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Following a recent storm surge in Wellington, some media coverage expressed surprise that 30cm of sea-level rise—an unavoidable amount projected to happen by the middle of this century—would turn a one-in-100-year coastal ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2021
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Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world's mountain glaciers.
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2021
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In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska's Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before racing out to sea.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2021
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