India, May 20 -- Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5degC under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world's ice sheets, a new study revealed.

The revelation was made during a new study led by Professor Chris Stokes in our Department of Geography.

The research suggests the target should instead be closer to 1degC to avoid significant losses from the polar ice sheets and prevent a further acceleration in sea level rise.

The team reviewed a wealth of evidence to examine the effect that a 1.5degC rise would have on the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

The mass of ice lost from these ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s and they are currently losing around 370 billion tonnes of ice p...