Beneath the ice; Greenland’s bedrock
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January 9, 2019
Greenland is giving up its secrets, one at a time Greenland’s ice-sheet is a significant
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Coral reefs and waves: degradation of the first might lead to increased damage by the second
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March 17, 2018
Anyone who has swum, snorkeled, or dived among coral reefs, will breach the sea surface a
Jet Streams
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March 3, 2018
The Polar Vortex. Sounds like scenes from the apocalyptic movie The Day After Tomorrow; a
It looks like sea level rise is accelerating; the era of satellite altimetry
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February 16, 2018
Sea level. It’s the most common starting point for any kind of elevation measurement, a
The fractured lives of ice shelves; destined to collapse
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February 9, 2018
Under the influence of gravity ice will flow or creep, albeit glacially. Stand in front
Polar bears do not live in the Antarctic, there are no Penguins in the Arctic. The asymmetry of the poles
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December 5, 2017
This post is about asymmetry – the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions. They are the
Nitrate in excess; a burgeoning global contamination problem
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November 18, 2017
A “Nitrate timebomb”. Last week’s media metaphor (Nov 10, 2017), was no doubt intended to
Dirt; Soil degradation is a global problem we inflict on ourselves
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October 25, 2017
The media loves hyperbole. In some ways they remind me of ‘The end is nigh’
Class 5; The Toba eruption – how a super volcano almost stopped humanity in its tracks
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October 4, 2017
Toba Lake, in northern Sumatra, occupies the ancient Toba caldera. One of its outlets, the
The intriguing paradox of global warming piggybacking on global cooling
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September 27, 2017
Flood, fire, drought … We have, by luck and muddled management, thwarted pestilence, but it
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