Polar ice is melting at an unprecedented rate and accounts for a quarter of all sea level rise, researchers say.

Climate change is impacting Australia today and will further impact human lives. That’s the takeaway from the biennial State of the Climate report published by the nation’s leading scientific organisations, the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

New seafloor imaging shows Thwaites Glacier has experienced blistering bursts of retreat.

Researchers are watching our shorelines get harder and simpler.

As glaciers, ice sheets and the poles continue to melt due to the human impacts on the environment it is bordering on criminal for the Australian and NSW governments to be supporting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, let alone clearing and burning trees for biomass energy production.