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A new map of the terrain beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or…
While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around…
Snow drought and unusually warm temperatures in the Colorado Basin in 2026 helped drive down reservoir water storage in the…
In summer 2026, a substantial iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland and swiftly drifted into Nares Strait, colliding…
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…
