Olaf Eisen News Today

Decades since the world first learnt about human-caused climate change and rising sea levels, the climate emergency is finally getting its day in Antarctic politics.

Last month Antarctica experienced a record-breaking heatwave, and unusually high amounts of snowfall in some places. Climate Now asks experts on the ice to explain whats really happening on the frozen continent.

Six teams of scientists have set up camp on Antarctica and will soon begin their quest to drill into a 1.8 mile-thick (3km) layer of ice. Until now, deep cores collected from the continent have allowed scientists to study the Earth’s prehistoric climate from trapped air bubbles dating up to 800,000 years ago. But the […]