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Glaciers regularly fluctuate with seasons, and the ice tunnel gets shorter as the summer stretches into fall.
grottoes

Swaddling Glaciers in Blankets Isn’t the Oddest Idea for Extending Their Lives

As glaciers and ice sheets keep dwindling, scientists are proposing everything they can think of.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 23, 2019
The entrance.
Nong Bua, Thailand

Wat Nong Bua Yai

An underwater temple submerged for 20 years has resurfaced with an extreme drought.
Lake Ilopango, under appropriately cloudy skies.
volcanoes

When a Volcano in El Salvador Cooled Down the Entire World

It may have even helped bring on the bubonic plague.
Matthew Taub August 19, 2019
A captive beluga sturgeon (<em>Huso huso</em>), the largest freshwater fish species in the world.
endangered animals

The Last Refuge of Eurasia’s Giant River Dwellers

From poaching and dams and climate, sturgeon in Georgia are facing extinction.
Isaac Schultz August 8, 2019
Newly planted trees dot an Ethiopian field.
world record

Ethiopia Just Set the World Record for Most Trees Planted in a Day

The country came together—and installed 350 million trees in just 12 hours—to combat climate change.
Evan Nicole Brown July 30, 2019
The dendrometer tracks the way the trunk and branches swell or contract.
forests

The Tree That Is Live-Tweeting Climate Change

With a little help from scientists, an oak in the Harvard Forest is sharing updates about its life.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 25, 2019
Where did all the big boys go?
squid

The Strange Case of Mexico's Shrinking Jumbo Squid

Too many El Niños have diminished the "diablo rojo."
Sabrina Imbler July 24, 2019
The volcano known as Ok is now down a glacier.
plaques

The Trek to Bid Farewell to an Icelandic Glacier

A plaque will soon mark the site of Okjökull, one of Iceland’s dearly departed.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 23, 2019
Floodwaters from the Mississippi River churn through the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
floods

Come for the Controlled Flooding, Stay for the Gumbo

As waters rise in Morganza, Louisiana, so does disaster tourism.
Michael Patrick Welch July 18, 2019
These sockeyes are ready to spawn.
Gastro Obscura

Okanagan Sockeye Salmon

Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.
A statue of the writer-botanist-philosopher, with wildflowers.
trees

How Thoreau's 19th-Century Observations Are Helping Shape Science Today

For one thing, they tell us that plants aren't blooming when they used to at Walden Pond—or most anywhere else.
Evan Nicole Brown July 9, 2019
Snapdragons (<em>Anthirrinum majus</em>) grow from Bologna's ancient fortifications.
flowers

A Century-Old Botanical Catalog Shows How Urban Plant Life Has Changed

In Bologna and other cities around the world, it’s the age of the hardy invader.
Isaac Schultz July 9, 2019
A Sierra Nevada forest in August 2016, following several years of severe drought.
forests

Why California's Droughts Killed More Than 100 Million Resilient Trees

The lack of water ran very, very deep.
Isaac Schultz July 3, 2019
The new neighbors have moved in.
insects

Giant, Sprawling Yellow Jacket Nests Are Surging in Alabama

Warming winters may be responsible.
Sabrina Imbler July 1, 2019
Tourists admiring the Ilulissat Icefjord.
glaciers

The World’s Fastest Glacier Is Loud, Dangerous, and Transfixing

For those in the Greenlandic town of Ilulissat, it's also an enchanting neighbor.
Matthew H Birkhold June 27, 2019
Oblique view of Himalayan landscape captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON satellite on December 20, 1975, on the border between eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India.
glaciers

How Old Spy Satellites Helped Scientists Peek In on Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers

Declassified reconnaissance images to the rescue.
Jessica Leigh Hester June 19, 2019
Milluni, Bolivia

Abandoned Chacaltaya Ski Resort

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.
A full yam house is a sign of prestige and power.
islands

The Elaborate Yam Houses of the Trobriand Islands

Years of drought have left them tragically empty.
Abbey Perreault June 17, 2019