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  • A beautiful ode to a melting earth

    Gretel Ehrlich’s recent book, The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold, is an intimate "ode and lament" on global warming and the end of winter

  • A nature lover's bucket list

    A nature lover's bucket list

    Time is running out to see the natural wonders that are endangered by rampant global warming.

  • Climate-change clues — in tropical glaciers

    In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical glaciers

  • Glaciers offer a glimpse of the distant past

    Like tree rings, ice cores create a record of the climate of the past, and the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver houses the largest collection of polar ice cores in the world

  • Hot Times - Global Warming in the West

    Global Warming is showing up in the West, in everything from receding glaciers to shrinking pika habitat

  • Ice matters

    Ice matters

    We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.

  • Living on Glacial Time

    Living on Glacial Time

    Climate change is altering the lands we call home in ways we'd never imagined.

  • My home on a glacier

    My home on a glacier

    The memory of two summers spent working as a dogsled guide on a glacier in Alaska will never melt away.

  • Seattle-based artist paints portraits of a melting world

    Seattle-based artist paints portraits of a melting world

    Maria Coryell-Martin uses 'expeditionary art' to educate people about climate change.

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