内容摘要："The mood is changing," says Weltmann, "the wind is starting to blow in the other direction."

"The mood is changing," says Weltmann, "the wind is starting to blow in the other direction."

Criteria for elite races includes equal exposure for the female race on social media coverage and prizes for female competition.Power has seen change in some of the world's biggest races.

since 2023 for some of its marquee events entitles those who are pregnant, have a pregnant partner or are adopting or birthing via surrogacy to a full refund and priority re-entry for up to five years.But she says there is still a long way to go.The New York, Boston and London marathons now all have pregnancy deferrals in place, yet mothers must pay the entrance fee for a second time when they use the deferral scheme, she said.

Her organisation's criteria requests races to implement a two-year deferral to allow people enough time to recover fully from their pregnancies."The majority of races are commercial, it's a business. If they can get more people on their start lines then they're going to do it and the purpose of the guidelines is they're almost non-cost. It's a no-brainer," she said.

"There are a lot of brands out there who say they are pro-women, yet they're sponsoring women's races that don't have pregnancy deferrals, that don't treat women equally.

"And then there are dinosaurs, they don't value the voice of female athletes."Pretty dramatic things [are] happening in both west Antarctica and Greenland," said co-author Prof Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre.

East Antarctica appears, for now at least, more stable."We're starting to see some of those worst case scenarios play out almost in front of us," added Prof Stokes.

Finally, scientists use computer models to simulate how ice sheets may respond to future climate. The picture they paint isn't good."Very, very few of the models actually show sea-level rise slowing down [if warming stabilises at 1.5C], and they certainly don't show sea-level rise stopping," said Prof Stokes.