Limit global warming to 1.5°C and halve the land ice contribution to sea level this century

Injecting particles into the atmosphere would reduce the temperature increase. But for the world’s ecosystems there is no alternative to mitigation efforts.

The strongest cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere reached its peak just as it struck Fiji in 2016. A new study looks at the role of the ocean directly underneath the cyclone.

Rainfall patterns in China over the past half a million years may have been more like the present than previously thought. Gaowen Dai writes about his new study.

Sea level variations in Northern Europe are influenced by winds high above the Atlantic, new study shows. In the western part of the North Sea, the wind direction is more important than the wind speed.

Afforestation in Norway can increase local temperatures in spring by as much as 1 ^oC. 

A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years in Nature Communications.

Future climate scenarios are beyond comparison with recent times. When evaluating models, researcher Petra Langebroek goes 50 million years back.

As the ice was retreating at the end of the ice age, the melting was suddenly interrupted. A cold period of more than a thousand years followed.

A comparison of Greenland ice sheet models shows that while the surface mass balance is most realistic in the most complex models, simpler and faster models compare fairly well.