The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds for ice-melt and sea-level rise, according to a new Cornell University ...

“Inland Sea Reflooding is the reconnection of large, below-sea-level basins to the ocean to create stable inland seas,” he told Mongabay by email. The initial flooding of the depression in Egypt, ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...