A study published on June 28th in the journal Nature Climate Change warns that over the last 30 years, the temperature at the South Pole has risen three times faster than the global average. An unexpected situation that worries scientists. Indeed, the increase in temperatures in Antarctica could accelerate the rise of the South Pole.
PlusThe disaster will not be for thirty or fifty years from now. It won't be in a century. No, it's for 2030, which is tomorrow. A shocking study has just been published in Nature, by Australian researchers who have been analysing for several years a geological period of intense upheaval, the
PlusSouth Africa, and particularly Cape Town, is suffering from an unprecedented drought. The municipality has even announced that the taps could be closed during August. To solve this serious crisis, a sea rescue specialist has come up with a crazy idea: towing an iceberg from Antarctica and
PlusIn the southwest corner of the Antarctic continent, there is a river of ice known as "the world's most dangerous glacier". On Monday, American and British scientists officially launched a venture to study the Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to determine whether it is heading towards a catastrophic collapse in a
PlusBy sounding the alarm about the climate, scientists can make some of us think of the fable of the boy and the wolf. Yet studies are multiplying and repeating themselves: all the scenarios lead to a worsening that is unfolding before our very eyes. One last
PlusStoring samples of glaciers in Antarctica: the idea may seem preposterous. Yet this is the objective of a team of researchers who will be going to Mont-Blanc in August to take samples of ice threatened by global warming. "It's not for the pleasure of keeping a few ice cubes.
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