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One narrowing icefall remains the linchpin for the Alpine glacier—and it may not be long for this world.
The meandering Congaree River sustains towering forest ecosystems and fashions oxbow lakes as it shifts across its floodplain.
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
A large iceberg, observed in summer 2026, had drifted more than 1,000 kilometers south from the northeastern Greenland bay where…
Drought in the Rio Grande basin contributed to New Mexico’s largest reservoir dwindling to its lowest level in decades.
New animations from NASA's PREFIRE mission reveal two years of seasonal temperature swings at the Arctic and Antarctic.
The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing…
The color of Adélie penguin droppings reveals what the birds are eating, offering scientists a way to track how sea…
Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.
Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
Orange streams are now being spotted in hundreds of watersheds in permafrost areas throughout Alaska’s Brooks Range.
Using satellite data, researchers connected harmful algal blooms with warm water and low water levels at one of Colorado's largest…
Relentless rains are threatening a lake in Kenya's Great Rift Valley that has become a key hub in the global…
Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska’s Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the…
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
Spring melt along Alaska’s Kuskokwim River caused ice jams and flooding.
A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.
