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In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025Martin Fackler and Hisako UenoComments Off on In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.

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Greenland Races Into New Era Without Losing Grip on Inuit Traditions

March 21, 2025Jeffrey Gettleman and Ivor PrickettComments Off on Greenland Races Into New Era Without Losing Grip on Inuit Traditions

Amid dizzying changes caused by a warming climate and global attention, Greenlanders don’t want to have to choose between embracing the future and honoring their heritage.

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In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes

February 6, 2025February 7, 2025RAYMOND ZHONGComments Off on In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ice sheets move.

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Arctic Tundra Has Long Helped Cool Earth. Now, It’s Fueling Warming.

December 10, 2024December 10, 2024RAYMOND ZHONGComments Off on Arctic Tundra Has Long Helped Cool Earth. Now, It’s Fueling Warming.

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for the first time in thousands of years.

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Baltazar Ushca, Who Kept Andean Ice Harvesting Alive, Dies at 80

November 9, 2024November 11, 2024RICHARD SANDOMIRComments Off on Baltazar Ushca, Who Kept Andean Ice Harvesting Alive, Dies at 80

He trekked up Ecuador’s tallest mountain twice a week for six decades to hack ice off a glacier with a pickax. He is believed to have been the last of his breed.

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Ruth Glacier in Alaska Hides America’s Deepest Gorge

October 8, 2024Raymond Zhong and Jason GulleyComments Off on Ruth Glacier in Alaska Hides America’s Deepest Gorge

A famed explorer was sure the ice hid something profound. Ninety years later, scientists have put forth the strongest evidence yet that he was right.

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Climate Change Is Making Glacier Tourism More Popular, and Riskier

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024Austyn GaffneyComments Off on Climate Change Is Making Glacier Tourism More Popular, and Riskier

More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable.

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If Paris Agreement Goals Are Missed, These Polar Bears Could Go Extinct

June 13, 2024June 13, 2024Austyn GaffneyComments Off on If Paris Agreement Goals Are Missed, These Polar Bears Could Go Extinct

One group in Hudson Bay might have roughly a decade left because sea ice is becoming too thin to support them as they hunt, according to new research.

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Is That Polar Bear Getting Enough to Eat? Try a Collar With a Camera.

February 13, 2024February 13, 2024Delger ErdenesanaaComments Off on Is That Polar Bear Getting Enough to Eat? Try a Collar With a Camera.

Scientists collected video from 20 bears during ice-free months to understand whether the animals can survive longer periods on land in a warming world.

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They Took Their Horses to the Swiss Alps for Snow Polo. They Got Slush Instead.

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024Claire MosesComments Off on They Took Their Horses to the Swiss Alps for Snow Polo. They Got Slush Instead.

In St. Moritz, a ski resort town that revolves around winter tourism, high temperatures made full matches impossible and raised concerns about the future.

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Some Glaciers Will Vanish No Matter What, Study Finds

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Some Glaciers Will Vanish No Matter What, Study Finds

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