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Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan. 15, 2020.
Environment
Climate change deeply affects the entire planet — including Mount Everest
A vast, white sheet of ice
Climate Change
Rapid ice melt and sea-level rise will be part of our global future — no matter what
a wooden bit in a palm
History
This once-frozen pass is a trove of Viking artifacts. Now, there’s a race to preserve them.
Joee Patterson is shown with her arms outstretched while wearing sunglasses and a red safety vest.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
For this marine tech, Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier drives home threat of climate change
Two yellow tents and a larger dome tent are staked into the snow. At the top of the image is a wing of a tiny prop plane.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
These scientists used small explosions to ‘see’ under Antarctica and measure how fast a key glacier will melt
Grease ice dampens ripples in the water near a golden orange sunset.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica dispatch 8: Behold grease, shuga and pancake ice
The eastern ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier is shown rising out of deep blue ocean waters.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 6: First sight of Thwaites — mapping uncharted seafloor
Three people walk across ground covered in ice and snow as the horizon stretches behind them.
The Big Melt
As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’
Two men stand on rocky land as mountains and snow stretch out behind them. One holds a drill of some kind and is drilling into the rock.
If the Greenland ice sheet melts, what happens to New York City? This reporter went to find out.
Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug
A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’
Thwaites Glacier
Environment
Just how unstable is the massive Thwaites glacier? Scientists are about to find out.
Glacier in Antarctica
Environment
Don’t let Antarctica’s size fool you. It’s melting fast.
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to
Environment
In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
A calving glacier off Greenland
Environment
A seven-year-old photo captures the thunderous changes in Arctic glacier melt
Scientists setting up GPS sensors to measure "accelerated uplift" in Iceland.
Environment
Melting glaciers lift Iceland — literally
Environment
This story is about tropical skiing, climate change and turning lemons into lemonade
Environment
Climate disruption and sea level rise
Environment
Scientists reveal startling decrease in Arctic Ocean ice cover
Environment
Greenland ice sheet experiences massive melt in mid-July
Environment
Huge ice island breaks off of Greenland glacier
Environment
Mapping error sparks new stance on climate change
Land Rising
Environment
Antarctica Warming Raises Sea Level Rise Risk
Scientists Discover Sub-Glacial Lake
Emperor Penguins adults with chicks in Antarctica.
Environment
Sea Levels May Rise Faster Than Expected
Environment
Greenland ice sheets melting faster than predicted
Environment
Big changes in the world’s cold regions
West Antartica Ice Sheet
Shepa Artic Ice Project
SHRINKING POLAR PACK ICE
MELTING ICE DISPLAY
Antarctica Series: Part 3 – Is Global Warming Affecting Polar Ice Shelves?
Antarctica Series, Part 3: Is Global Warming Affecting Polar Ice Shelves?
Greenland’s Ice Melt
Emerging Science Note/Ocean Life Evolution
Almanac/Merzbacher Lake
Almanac/Merzbacher Lake
Great Lakes Ice
Lake Ice
Arts, Culture & Media
Ice breaks off glacier in New Zealand