How To Fix… from the University of Leeds. Providing hopeful solutions to the greatest challenges humanity faces, directly from the scientists and researchers on the front line.

Two billion people could be forced to leave their homes as the world’s glaciers melt. These ice giants provide fresh water to over half of humanity, but they’re disappearing faster than ever. If glaciers vanish at this pace, ecosystems collapse, communities uproot and human survival itself is at risk. But there’s still hope: by understanding these frozen worlds, and acting fast, we can secure a future where glaciers, and the billions who depend on them, endure. So today we want to ask – how can we minimise the impact of melting glaciers?

Host Rich Williams is joined by three guests from the University of Leeds who are searching for the answers:

• Professor Duncan Quincey, a leading glaciologist whose research focuses on how mountain glaciers are responding to climate change. He studies the ways these vast ice bodies are reshaping under rising temperatures and what this means for the millions of people who rely on them.

• Kenton Cool, one of the world’s foremost high-altitude climbers and alumnus of the University of Leeds, who spent time with Professor Duncan Quincey’s research team while on his nineteenth ascent of Everest earlier this year.

• Dr Lauren Rawlins, a glaciologist and Teaching Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds who studies how glaciers and glacial lakes are changing in a warming climate.

Further reading:

• Research to explore why Everest glacier is so warm | University of Leeds

• Glacial Lake Observatory for Flood Hazards Impacted by Changing Climate

Presented by Rich Williams. Produced by Tom Taylor and Kathleen Johnston. External Communications Campaigns Manager is Kersti Mitchell. HOW TO FIX… is a Podmasters Production for the University of Leeds Communications and Engagement team.

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