Course: Tackling Environmental Challenges for a Sustainable Future

There is another reason why supraglacial lakes are of importance when it comes to thinking about glacier and ice sheet stability. This is because under certain conditions, water generated at …

The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second biggest body of ice on the planet (after Antarctica). It extends for approximately 1.7 million square kilometres and contains enough ice to raise …

Given their location at the interface between the land and sea, coastal environments are quite literally, taking a pounding from climate change. As you heard in week one, melting glaciers …

The discharge of water from glaciers is extremely seasonal. As we learned previously, most, if not all, glacier melt takes place in the spring and summer months, when air temperatures …

We apologise if we have depressed you about the effects of ocean warming on ocean life, but I’m afraid things are about to get even worse. The extra carbon dioxide …

As we saw previously, the vast majority of glaciers around the world are in retreat as a consequence of our warming climate – in other words, they are getting smaller …

There is no longer any doubt that humans are causing our climate to change; warming up the atmosphere and changing the weather. As we already know, the ocean absorbs over …

In the middle of 2006, a new study was published in the prestigious journal ‘Science’ that shocked seafood lovers everywhere. Based on the rate that fish populations were collapsing due …

Most of us have heard about the Industrial Revolution and how it led to rapid industrialisation, but few people are aware of the historical events that preceded and enabled it. …

In this video, David Rippin provides an introduction to this course – what the course is about and why it is important.

The third imperative is energy affordability. First, watch this video on fuel poverty: This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. In 2019 the UK Government estimated that 2.53 million …

We’ve found out already what conditions are required for glaciers to exist, and from the understanding gained there, it is apparent that glaciers can grow further by adding more snow …

Earlier we looked at SDG 14: Life Below Water which aims to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Now we are going to …

Glaciers are large bodies of ice. They can be as small as a football field or so big that they stretch for hundreds of kilometres. The key defining aspects of …

This course has been brought to you through a collaboration between five colleagues from the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. Through our diverse areas of …