Sea level rise: rapid and unstoppable unless Paris Agreement targets met

Published: 16 September 2022

Image Caption: The Mackenzie River Delta on the Beaufort Sea, a low-lying region in the Canadian Arctic that is vulnerable to rising seas in a warming climate. CREDIT: Nadia and Harold Gomez

Sea ice extent in Arctic and Antarctic reached record lows in November

Published: 7 December 2016

“Both the Arctic and Antarctic experienced record lows in sea ice extent in November, with scientists astonished to see Arctic ice actually retreating at a time when the region enters the cold...

The making of Antarctica

Published: 31 January 2017

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Published: 19 January 2016

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Published: 19 January 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars...

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