Blog: Don’t be fooled – we can and we must limit temperature rise to 1.5°C
“It’s too late to stop Antarctic ice melt.” But “the Greenland ice sheet might be more resistant to warming than
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Author: Irene Quaile
Ice-Blog: Climate ambition is not enough to tackle the ice emergency
It’s been a big week for climate, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets around the globe as UN
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Blog: COP28 Countdown—Bonn UN climate talks try to smooth rocky path to Dubai
The thermometer on the UNFCCC building here in Bonn is showing high summer temperatures early in the season, as the
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Blog: Ice researchers among world’s most influential – a sign of the TIME(s)?
Climate change is impacting the frozen regions of our planet faster and more seriously than expected. The naming of two
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Blog: Earth’s temperature rises as geopolitical climate cools
It’s now one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. There’s no sign of any end to the conflict. And we are
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Blog: Moving North – Arctic Frontiers in a changing world
Tromso is living up to its image as Norway’s Arctic capital, as I step off the plane into a flurry
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Blog: 2023, yet another “last chance” for the climate?
Why 2023 will be another key year for the future of our climate. I am looking out onto a sparkling
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Blog: Warmer, wetter, darker—What’s happening to the “frozen North”?
2022 has seen exceptional warmth and ice melt in the Arctic, with consequences for the whole planet. But against the
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Blog: Wildfires and ice – heatwaves put spotlight on the Arctic
Rarely have I heard the Arctic being mentioned so often in the media as in this hottest of summers. I
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Blog: UN experts talk climate in Bonn amidst Arctic warming, Ukraine invasion
Same procedure as every year? While the Russian aggression in Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines and COVID simmers steadily
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Ice-Blog: In search of consensus in troubled times – Students in Scotland run model Arctic Council
When I was growing up on the southern outskirts of Glasgow in the 1970s, a trip to Oban was known
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Blog: Thawing permafrost: Arctic future on shaky ground bodes ill for the global climate
When I first visited Greenland on a reporting trip in the summer of 2009, my first stop, like that of
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Blog: Business as usual for fossil fuels as polar ice melt bodes more climate chaos in 2022
This December brought some stark reminders of the events that made this year one I will not forget – and
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Blog: Glasgow outcome – A COP-out for the Arctic, and the rest of the planet
My expectations for COP26 were not high. What we needed to come out of it was huge. But at the
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Blog: Walk the talk? Can COP26 drive global transformation in time to save the planet?
Will Glasgow’s COP26 be remembered like Copenhagen (disaster) or Paris (breakthrough)? Is the climate glass half empty or half full?
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