Recent publications

An international team of scientists, including GNS ice sheet modeller Dan Lowry, has published a paper predicting that sea-level rise from melting polar ice could be halved this century if we meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5°C.

In this article, for the Antarctic Science Platform, Richard Levy and Tim Naish discuss the connections between the melting of Antarctic ice-sheets and planning to sea-level rise in Aotearoa.

Coasts in tectonically active regions face varying threat levels as land subsides or uplifts relative to rising sea levels.

In this article for The Circle: Artic Check-up Nick Golledge discusses the alarming feedback loops between the changing climate and melting ice.

Recently research highlights the long term impacts of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt.