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The World Invitational Skijoring Championship is a Whitefish institution.
sports

Winter Fun, From Skijoring to Backyard Skating, Is Feeling the Heat of Climate Change

The impact is not just economic, but cultural and recreational, too.
Justin Franz February 5, 2020
A swarm of locusts in Samburu county, approximately 186 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22.
insects

How Climate Change Helped Spawn an East African Locust Crisis

Pictures from the ground show an insect storm of biblical proportions.
Zoya Teirstein January 30, 2020
Hungry?
fires

Air-Dropped Carrots Might Be a Temporary Answer to a Threatened Wallaby's Prayers

After devastating Australian bushfires, root vegetables could help the brush-tailed rock-wallaby hang on.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 16, 2020
Dolmen of Guadalperal.
Peraleda de la Mata, Spain

Dolmen of Guadalperal

This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.
SPRUCE Experiment exterior.
Bovey, Minnesota

Marcell Experimental Forest

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.
It's hard to picture Joshua Tree without its goofy namesakes, but they're in trouble.
art

The Art and Science of Falling in Love With Joshua Trees

"HeyJTree" is built like a dating site, but it matches readers with the charismatic, threatened plants.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 26, 2019
Video

New York's Disappearing Sunken Forest

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Cut off by a road, this bog has flooded unnaturally.
forests

Bogs Lose Their Carbon-Chomping Powers When Roads Cut Through Them

In Canada, roads disrupt wetland water flow and multiply methane emissions, a new study finds.
Sabrina Imbler December 20, 2019
On December 10, 2019, the waterfall was a trickle, not a cascade.
nature

World-Famous Waterfalls May Slow to a Trickle, But Tourism Doesn't Have To

When climate change comes for attractions like Victoria Falls, visitors can find new ways to appreciate them.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 13, 2019
The formations in Soreq Cave, also known as Avshalom Cave, capture ancient climate.
caves

Israel’s Stalagmites Have Climate Stories to Tell

Formed by dripping water over thousands of years, the rocky formations point to ancient monsoons.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 29, 2019
The flex gates to protect subway stations are tested with lots of water.
floods

How Do You Keep a Subway From Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas?

You seal it up, but you have to test it first.
Isaac Schultz November 21, 2019
Mongolia's perennial ice patches are receding and disappearing.
archaeology

Mongolia’s Disappearing Ice Patches Threaten Both the Past and the Present

Reindeer herders and archaeologists must adapt to the new normal.
Isaac Schultz November 20, 2019
The Rubjerg Knude lighthouse, on the move.
lighthouses

More and More Lighthouses Are Moving Away From the Shore

A Danish structure is the latest to evade erosion by migrating inland.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 19, 2019
Once upon a time there was a cemetery here, in Tangier, Virginia.
cemeteries

From Indonesia to Ingonish, Some Bones Won't Stay Buried 

As seas and storms erode coastlines, cemeteries are giving up their dead. 
Jennifer S. Holland October 28, 2019
Water stains and aquatic plants attest that the dolmen was recently submerged.
ruins

Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'

Up close with the 7,000-year-old Dolmen of Guadalperal.
Alyssa McMurtry September 6, 2019
Casa Pueblo.
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Casa Pueblo

This community-driven organization uses education and eco-friendly technology to protect the environment.
Zrinjevac Meteorological Column
Zagreb, Croatia

Zrinjevac Meteorological Column

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.
The 73-mile-long Inuvik-Aklavik Ice Road forms each year when the Mackenzie River freezes over.
roads

Canada's Ice Roads Are Melting Too Soon

Climate change is fraying these seasonal lifelines, causing hardships for the remote towns that rely on them.
Karen Gardiner August 23, 2019