Colorado’s glaciers thinned dramatically due to record low snow and heat in 2026
DENVER — The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low…
Earth Is Getting Rounder—and You Can Guess Why
Despite what photos suggest, Earth is not perfectly round. Our home planet is actually a lumpy “oblate spheroid”…
An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat
A vast region of East Antarctica contains enough ice to cause a dramatic rise in global sea levels…
Geologists Are Hunting for Camouflaged ‘Rock Glaciers’ Vital to Global Freshwater Supplies
The average person’s idea of how climate change might someday plunge the world into a series of post-apocalyptic,…
Polar Ice Sheets Have Lost 11 Trillion Tons of Ice—and ‘Speeding’ Glaciers Are Driving the Loss
As greenhouse gas emissions push Earth’s temperature to new heights, polar ice sheets are rapidly melting away. Numerous…
Greenland’s Wayward Ice Island Just Smashed Into Joe Island—and Survived
A giant iceberg the size of Manhattan broke off from the Petermann Glacier along Greenland’s northwest coast in…
Scientists Found a Massive Ice Reservoir Hidden Beneath Utah’s Rocky Mountains
When we picture a glacier, we tend to imagine an enormous chunk of ice sprawling across a mountain…
Rescue teams continue search for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after floods
Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a catastrophic and…
A Massive Iceberg Broke off Greenland. New Images Show What Led up to It
A massive slab of ice has broken away from one of Greenland’s largest remaining floating glacier tongues, creating…
Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ May Finally Reveal Its Origins
At the edge of the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, crimson water pours into…
Map shows US cities that could go underwater if sea levels rise 3 meters
Scientists are warning that the collapse of Antarctica’s massive “doomsday glacier” could eventually redraw large parts of America’s…
‘Beautiful but precarious’: Photographer captures Earth’s fragile systems hanging by a thread
From the blue architecture of Icelandic ice caves to the flamingo-pink shores of Kenya’s Lake Magadi, photographer Jon…