The Big Thaw
So far, the results have been positively chilling. When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers....
Why are glaciers and sea ice melting?
Glaciers around the world can range from ice that is several hundred to several thousand years old and provide a scientific record of how climate has...
Greenland’s Retreating Glaciers Could Impact Local Ecology
A new study of Greenland’s shrinking ice sheet reveals that many of the island’s glaciers are not only retreating, but are also undergoing other physical...
Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say
10 million snowblowers? Last-ditch ideas to save the Arctic ice
Some of the solutions sound fantastical – but their proponents argue that there are precious few other options
Big oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling
“It’s like God’s country,” said George Ahmaogak Sr, a former mayor of the North Slope borough, who has built three subsistence fishing cabins not far...
‘Demented’: Oil Giant Refreezing Rapidly Melting Permafrost So It Can Keep Climate-Killing Arctic Drilling Alive
It wanted to pump 160,000 more barrels of oil each day from a new project on Alaska's North Slope. But the fossil fuels it and...
Alaska’s new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost
“When the climate changes,” said geologist Bretwood Higman, who has worked on Taan Fiord and Barry Arm, “the landscape takes time to adjust. If a...