A mineral-rich Antarctic region that provides geologists with a unique window into the continent’s history has been given special protected status. The Stornes Peninsula in the...
Ocean waves larger than 3 metres in height can travel hundreds of kilometres below the ice before dispersing, scientists have shown. These higher waves have been...
The disappearance of melting ice sheets, caused by global warming, may have a small silver lining, scientists have said. A new study suggests that summer meltwaters...
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A new radar survey has revealed that in the past three years Antarctica has lost ice at twice the rate it did between 2005 and 2010,...
The collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now unstoppable, guaranteeing a potentially devastating eventual sea level rise of up to 4 metres (13ft), according...
A part of remote East Antarctica, previously thought to be largely immune to warming, may be susceptible to climate change with a potentially devastating impact on...
The British government has announced that it will invest £200m in one of the most advanced polar research vessels ever made to support scientists in both...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
After the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) released its Sustainability Review last week, Scotland’s Herald newspaper reported that the state-owned bank “aims to lead from the front...
Japan is to launch a reduced whale hunt next week after an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling prohibited the country from whaling off Antarctica. Japanese...
The impacts of climate change are being felt at even the deepest depths of the Antarctic ocean, a new study has found, in a discovery that...
The recently observed increase in summer sea-ice cover in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is likely to be short-lived, according to the findings of a new study that...
The rapidly melting Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica may be the biggest contributor to rising sea levels over the next few decades, a new study...
Norway’s largest oil company Statoil has announced it is considering pulling out of operations in west Greenland. This comes after experts claimed in a report last...