On Sunday 16 December 2018, NESSC organises the fourth edition of its annual NESSC Christmas lecture. The 2018 NESSC Chrismas lecture will be held by climate researcher Jorien Vonk (VU
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Melting of Greenland ice is at fastest rate in 350 years
Melting at the Greenland ice sheet is at its fastest rate in 350 years, a new Nature-publication finds. Climate researchers reconstructed 350 years of Greenland ice melt, based on
/ read moreThe role of calcification in neutralizing acidification
The biological formation of carbonate minerals plays an important role in ocean acidification recovery, a new Nature Geoscience article by NESSC-researcher Jack Middelburg and colleagues posits. Changes to the
/ read more500 million years long history of CO2 revealed
NESSC-scientists have reconstructed the history of varying CO2-concentrations for a record 500 million years. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University recovered the ancient
/ read moreTipping points in Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets
The melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will accelerate and become irreversible if global temperatures increase above a 1,5 – 2 degrees Celsius threshold, a newly published
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