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.

“Sea-level projections for New Zealand’s Scott Base rebuild.“ The impact of sea-level change on our facilities in Antarctica will affect our ability to operate on the southern continent in the coming decades.

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.