Results for keyword: glaciers
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Seattle-based artist paints portraits of a melting world
Maria Coryell-Martin uses 'expeditionary art' to educate people about climate change.
by Eric Wagner, Nov 30, 2012 -
Ice matters
We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.
by Tim Lydon, Jul 27, 2011 -
A nature lover's bucket list
Time is running out to see the natural wonders that are endangered by rampant global warming.
by Tim Lydon, Feb 15, 2010 -
Living on Glacial Time
Climate change is altering the lands we call home in ways we'd never imagined.
by Ana Maria Spagna, Sep 13, 2009 -
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.
by Blair Braverman , Aug 27, 2009 -
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
by John Krist, Jun 26, 2006 -
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
by Allen Best, Jan 24, 2005 -
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
by Stephen J. Lyons, Nov 22, 2004 -
Hot Times - Global Warming in the West
Global Warming is showing up in the West, in everything from receding glaciers to shrinking pika habitat
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 19, 2004






