The glacier’s Main Branch pulled away from a stabilizing rocky outcrop, while melting along the West Branch exposed “new gravelly real estate.” Read More…...
Weather Blog
Highlights of the environment and weather-related photo stories
China’s capital city boasts a diversity of structures, from its historic city center to the concentric roads and high-speed railway that surround it. Read...
Drought has amplified fire activity across the continent, contributing to exceptionally high carbon emissions in Bolivia and Brazil. Read More…
Algal communities flourish in Lake Erie’s western basin each summer. Scientists are looking to new NASA technology to better track them from space. Read...
After hitting the Philippines, the powerful storm is churning toward landfall near China’s Hainan Island. Read More…
Flash flooding has inundated villages, swamped farmland, and damaged infrastructure. Read More…
Burning for weeks, the Wapiti and Middle Fork Complex fires have charred tens of thousands of acres. Read More…
The polar vortex elongated and weakened over Antarctica, causing rare warming events. Read More…
The setting for John Henry’s legendary contest with a steam-powered drill may have been this tunnel through Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia. Read...
