Ice cap News

A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be some 42.3 square miles (110 square kilometers), has broken off in the far north east Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.

New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSDIC) reveal that Arctic ice is continuing to melt at an alarming rate. Summer ice in the Arctic may all but disappear over the next few decades, much earlier than scientists had previously predicted.

Reykjav - Grimsvötn, Iceland’s most active volcano, began its latest eruption on Saturday and has led to a shutdown of some air travel in the country, just a year after the massive Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption created air travel chaos across Europe.

Aberystwyth - A new study on ice loss calculations shows some mountain glaciers are currently melting at a rate 100 times faster than at any other period during the last 350 years, setting the stage for major impacts on fresh water supplies and agriculture production.

Climate change is happening more rapidly than anyone thought possible, the German government's expert, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warned.