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A white-letter hairstreak.
insects

A Butterfly Reappears in Scotland After 133 Years Away

Climate change might have helped bring the white-letter hairstreak back north.
Erik Shilling August 15, 2017
Lagginhorn.
mountains

Found: The Body of a Hiker Missing for Thirty Years

A melting glacier revealed the frozen hands and feet of a man who disappeared in 1987.
Sarah Laskow August 3, 2017
Pugh swimming in subzero water, alongside a border of melting Arctic sea ice.
arctic circle

This Speedo-Clad Environmentalist Is Swimming Through the Melting Arctic

Endurance athlete Lewis Pugh is braving subzero water to draw attention to the effects of climate change.
Cara Giaimo August 2, 2017
Care for a jellyfish chip?
science

Jellyfish May Be the Snack Food of the Future

Scientists are trying to take the sting out of jellyfish blooms.
Natasha Frost July 31, 2017
A polar bear in Svalbard navigates some melting ice.
animals

Hungry Polar Bears in Norway Have Resorted to Sucking Eggs

Svalbard's ursine residents can't find much other food.
Cara Giaimo July 24, 2017
One of Luca Tombolini's desertscapes.
deserts

The Abstract Beauty of One of the World's Harshest Climates

The desert, as you’ve never seen it before.
Anika Burgess July 19, 2017
The Denver Sluice
Denver, England

The Denver Sluice Complex

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.
mummies

This Mummified Chameleon Was Hoping to Find Water

The sad end of a hopeful creature.
Sarah Laskow June 21, 2017
boats

A Polynesian Canoe Is About to Complete a Worldwide Journey

Without modern navigation.
Erik Shilling June 14, 2017
Narrowleaf cottonwoods in Colorado.
science

For Trees to Migrate With Climate, They Need Help From Microbes

How we might help ecosystems adapt to the world we've created.
Kelsey Kennedy June 8, 2017
So many craters!
geology

Found: Giant Mounds and Craters Across the Arctic Seafloor

Aka methane burps.
Sarah Laskow June 2, 2017
Permanently Closed
Straight on view of Support
Venice, Italy

Giant Hands of Venice’s Grand Canal

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.
A moss bank on Antarctica's appropriately named Green Island.
science

The Future of Antarctica Is Probably Going to Be Greener

Warming temperatures are causing moss banks to grow faster.
Kelsey Kennedy May 19, 2017
Batagaika Crater in June 2016.
science

A Giant Permafrost Crater Grows in Siberia

It's yet another canary in the climate coal mine.
Samir S. Patel May 2, 2017
news

Antarctica Is Covered in Streams and Waterfalls

Scientists have mapped the continent's meltwater systems for the first time. They also make for good video.
Sarah Laskow April 20, 2017
The new outflow of the Kaskawulsh Glacier.
pirates

A 'River Pirate' Can Be a Criminal—Or Another River

What outlaws on the Mississippi have to do with glaciers in the Yukon.
Samir S. Patel April 18, 2017
The Ross Ice Shelf.
mystery

Listening to Icebergs' Loud and Mournful Breakup Songs

Scientists are just learning to decode the sounds of icebergs.
Sarah Laskow April 5, 2017
The view from Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana.
parks

This Century-Long Photo Project Documents Montana's Shrinking Glaciers

Repeat photography from 70 spots shows the stark differences over decades.
Andy Wright April 4, 2017