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Swiss glaciers shrink by record 10% in just 2 years — report
Switzerland's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate. In just two years, the country has lost as much ice as it lost between 1960 and 1990.
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Ice climbing in Chesapeake region melts away in face of warm winters
In places like The Narrows in Pennsylvania, Swallow Falls in western Maryland and The Unicorn in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, frozen waterfalls and seeps become a much-anticipated playground for the extreme sport of ice climbing.
Conger Ice Shelf breaks off eastern Antarctica
An ice shelf larger than New York City has broken off eastern Antarctica, the first major shelf to collapse there in more than four decades of satellite observations.
How a warming Lake Superior is affecting one Anishinaabe fisherman
Respect for water was as much a part of Phillip Solomon’s fishing education as sawing through thick winter ice. The Anishinaabe fisherman can see how rising temperatures are changing Gitchigumi and the fish his community relies on.
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Iceberg splits from Antarctica, becoming world's largest
The iceberg broke off from the edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea this week, researchers said.
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It spied on Soviet atomic bombs. Now it's solving ecological mysteries
Imagery from the Cold War’s Corona satellites is helping scientists fill in how we have changed our planet in the past half century.
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Climate change intensifies tsunami threat in Alaska
As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, massive landslides threaten coastal communities.
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