In the last interglacial, the sea level rose to ten meters higher than today. For the first time, researchers have now traced the extra water to Antarctica, published this week in Nature Communications. 

Erik Kolstad and Scott Bremer organise training in transdisciplinary climate adaptation research for early career researchers.

The natural climate system has mechanisms that can abruptly trigger change. New research suggests that spontaneous cooling may have caused Arctic glaciers to grow long before the Little Ice Age, without external forcing.

This summer has produced extreme melts on the Greenland ice and Arctic sea ice. The researchers of the ice2ice project sees parallels to prehistoric, extremely rapid changes in climate.

The cold and warm climatic phases of the past 2000 years were not, as previously assumed, global phenomena. The climate varied greatly from region to region. That’s according to a study by the University of Bern that has just been published in Nature. In contrast to earlier times, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time.

Around 10,000 years ago, the ice melted away from northern Sweden, ending the ice age in Scandinavia. Ancient shorelines place the last remnants of the ice in the lowlands, not in the mountains.