The Pegase 26 mission from France brings Rafale jets into action as they journey 40,000 kilometers across three continents. This ambitious undertaking not only demonstrates France's skills in executing swift long-distance operations but also enhances collaborative capabilities with partners through essential aerial refueling. Taking an innovative northern route crossing the Arctic, the mission underscores France's strategic prominence and dedication to bolstering global security relationships.
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit One in nine migratory birds are threatened with extinction and 45% of migratory species such as cuckoos, turtle doves and Arctic terns are in decline, according to a global report. The migratory slender-billed curlew was officially declared extinct last year, the first global bird extinction in mainland Eurasia and Africa in recent centuries. Worldwide, seven migratory bird species have been confirmed or are suspected to have become extinct over the last 150 years. Continue reading...
Global oil price at its highest since May while investors dump stocks and bonds after Donald Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ promise Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Fuel prices are on track to climb a further 20-30 cents per litre over the coming weeks, after the escalating Middle East conflict pushed the global oil price to its highest since mid-May. As investors dumped stocks and bonds in an increasingly febrile environment, Donald Trump’s promise to give every US adult citizen a US$5,000 “dividend” after the November midterms if Republicans win added to alarm around the parlous state of the country’s finances. Continue reading...
Researchers found evidence that Ice Age foragers were sucking psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago.
Arctic zigs; Antarctic zags Greetings, readers! Our monthly sea ice analyses are returning just in time for the September equinox. In the Arctic, the sea ice extent this summer was tracking 2012 levels until August. While Siberia and the Canadian Archipelago experienced a very warm summer, the high-latitude Arctic Ocean was relatively cool. In the Antarctic, sea ice underwent an unusually large mid-winter decline over a week in August. Overview of conditions Arctic sea ice extent for August 2026 averaged 5.56 million square kilometers (2.15 million square miles), the seventh lowest in the satellite record (Figure 1a). This monthly average extent was 840,000 square kilometers (324,000 square miles) above the satellite record low set in 2012 (Figure 1b). Sea ice extent...
Discover why the Odden ice tongue, once common in the Greenland Sea, is reappearing after years of absence.
Permafrost is a key component of the Arctic’s complex ecosystem: it stores large quantities of carbon over long periods and provides for firm, stable ground. As the ice melts, the ground subsides, creating a depression in which meltwater can collect and, over many years, grows into a lake. While these thermokarst lakes accelerate the thawing of permafrost, they are a vital source of livelihood for local people at the same time. With technical support from North American partners, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have established the ‘Lost Lakes‘ database, which provides key information on the state of Arctic thermokarst lakes in real time, as well as over longer periods. This enables detecting changes in permafrost landscapes as soon as they occur and helps local communities to respond...
A massive molar was hanging out in a Bay Area creek.
A scientist surveying a San Mateo County creek accidentally discovered an ancient Ice Age molar while working to improve habitat for a threatened frog.
Between 2021 and 2023, Antarctica experienced a notable gain in ice mass, primarily driven by exceptional snowfall in East Antarctica. This unusual occurrence, influenced by warmer tropical ocean temperatures, caused atmospheric disturbances that transported moisture southward. Although this gain temporarily countered ongoing ice loss in other regions, it does not signify a change in Antarctica's long-term trend of declining ice mass.
Melting Arctic glaciers are creating a 'doom loop' by flushing ancient methane out from the rocks beneath the ice, a study has found.
Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 17, 16 September 2026.
Ancient Irish cave art may reveal a lost Ice Age route from Wales.
The massive slab of ice broke off from one of Greenland's largest glaciers and has been drifting away since.
Peat fires in Borneo are releasing ancient stores of carbon - and sending a toxic smog across South East Asia.
The tragic death of a junior Chinese customs officer on the Sino-Nepal border, who had only been in her position for four days before being killed in a catastrophic mudslide, has stirred immense heartbreak online. Twenty-four-year-old Li Leiyang began her role as a plant quarantine officer at the Customs at Gyirong Port in Tibet on August 21, according to a report by news portal 163.com. On August 26, while Li was working at her desk, a glacier collapsed in Nepal, triggering a mudslide and...
During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.
As Beijing and Moscow double down on the Arctic shipping route, Europe is hitting the brakes. Despite being the main destination for goods along the route and accounting for most of the world’s shipping giants, Europe opposes the commercialisation of Arctic transits, wary of fragile polar ecosystems and navigational risks amid rising anxiety over Russia and China’s closer polar collaboration. “In Europe, cooperation between China and Russia on container shipping is often viewed as another...
An image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming, with large patches of open water visible near the North Pole on Aug. 29.
Everest’s seasonal city produces enough heat to melt thousands of tons of ice.
Churchill, Man. is home to thousands of beluga whales this time of year, and soon hundreds of polar bears will also gather around the community.
The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) says a contentious industrial development near Ice Lake in Whitehorse should go ahead.
Global temperatures are poised to breach the limit set by the Paris Agreement, and large-scale carbon dioxide removal will be needed, according to the U.N.
Swap rates rise to three-year high as increase in oil prices leads to fears of higher inflation Business live – latest updates Homeowners in the UK are braced for a jump in mortgage rates, driven by higher inflation and interest rate increase expectations amid turmoil in the global bond markets. UK swap rates, which lenders use to price mortgages, have risen to a three-year high, as this week’s global bond market sell-off ripples through the economy. Continue reading...
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are likely to become more unstable, which may lead to more collapses and collateral disasters, a senior climate official warns as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic landslide and flood on the China-Nepal border continues to rise. “Over the past 60 years, the glacier area on the Tibetan Plateau has shrunk by around 24 per cent, with around 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely,” Gao Rong, deputy director of China’s National Climate Centre, told a...
For the first time in recent history, Danish conscripts have been deployed to Greenland, as Denmark moves to bolster its presence in the Arctic after U.S. demands to acquire the territory. - REUTERS
[Liberian Observer] The government has moved closer to turning one of its greatest natural assets--its forests and other carbon-rich ecosystems--into a potential source of international climate finance.
A glacier collapse in Nepal and China showed visible signs days before the disaster. Scientists noted brown meltwater and a propagating crack as pre-event indications. The disaster killed over 1,100 people, with more lives potentially saved by better warning systems. Comprehensive monitoring of glaciers and slopes is now stressed for vulnerable communities. Enhanced cross-border cooperation is also needed for transboundary hazard management.
A growing number of Chinese workers are sharing tips on social media to combat “office ageing.” Suggestions range from applying sunscreen and using full-face masks to setting up parasols at their desks. Recently, a RedNote user with the handle @lelehangmu from Jiangsu province in eastern China shared that just one month into his job, his complexion had noticeably darkened, and his eyes frequently felt strained. The post quickly resonated with others. Another user reported that she appeared...
Residents and rescuers in the Tibet autonomous region paused for three minutes on Tuesday morning to remember the victims of last week’s mudslide disaster. Sirens sounded for three minutes from 9.55am at the Gyirong Port police station, with similar memorials at rescue and road-reopening sites throughout the region, according to state broadcaster CCTV. More than 1,000 people died and thousands remain missing along the China-Nepal border area after a glacier collapsed at Langtang Lirung on the...
In summer 2026, a substantial iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland and swiftly drifted into Nares Strait, colliding with an island along the way.
Researchers have found a way to slash emissions from one of the most carbon-intensive industries in the world.
China warned on Monday there was a “major risk” of further glacier collapses and landslides along the border with Nepal as the death toll from last week’s deadly mudslide rose to close to 1,000. The Ministry of Water Resources said there was an ongoing threat along the Cuojian River in Nepal, a waterway that flows into the Purepuqiang River in Tibet, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Downstream in Tibet there was also a risk that further landslides would cause a new barrier lake to form,...
The Antarctic coastal zone is not simply the edge of the continent. It is a tightly coupled system where the ice from the ice sheet extends over the seabed, initially resting on it and further out floating as ice shelves. Here, mass, heat and nutrients are exchanged with the ocean through various processes. Even the smallest changes can have outsized consequences. Yet key coastal conditions remain poorly mapped as an international review published in the journal Reviews of Geophysics shows. It highlights key knowledge gaps and the need for improved observations at a pan-Antarctic scale. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and...
The video, filmed by a Chinese tour guide in Tibet, shows huge chunks of ice breaking away from a ridge on Langtang Lirung peak, on the Nepali side of the border.
The British citizen, who lives and works in the US, has supported Trump and ICE agents in the past.
Discover the top stories from Aug. 22 to Aug. 28, 2026, including mummies made 2,000 years before the rise of Egypt and a rare brain-eating amoeba that is spreading across the U.S.
Within hours of a devastating glacier collapse on the China-Nepal border, a Beijing-based satellite company had already redirected six of its satellites to survey the disaster zone. The high-resolution radar images they captured revealed a massive collapse site near a remote mountain pass. Unlike optical sensors, radar signals can pierce through haze and cloud, mapping terrain changes with high precision even in the rugged Himalayan plateau. The swift commercial response also underscores a...
Researchers estimate that a whopping 15 million people worldwide are living in danger zones.
Satellite images analysed by Isro’s national remote sensing centre showed that almost two-thirds of the glacier body had detached. A Sentinel-2 image from Aug 24 showed the glacier intact, while a Landsat-9 image taken after the disaster on Aug 26 revealed a large scar identified as the “zone of glacier breakage and collapse”. The images also traced a broad ice-rock avalanche path descending towards the river.
Washington Post: Satellite images show a glacier shrinking and a river swelling.
Bag, camera and pipe belonging to 86-year-old are latest relics uncovered as glaciers melt due to global heating An 86-year-old mountaineer has been reunited with his backpack and climbing equipment after the kit emerged from a melting glacier in Austria – more than 60 years after he was forced to leave them there. Items including an ice axe, camera and a pipe dating from the 1950s or 1960s were discovered on the Sulztalferner glacier in Austria’s Tyrol region, at an altitude of 2,955 metres (9,700ft) above sea level, by a hiker in July. Continue reading...
Chinese scientists have developed a cross-border early warning system with counterparts in Nepal to monitor Himalayan glacial lake outburst floods. The system has issued timely alerts over the past several years, effectively preventing casualties. But on Wednesday, a high-altitude ice-rock avalanche took everyone by surprise. The debris flow hit a river in Nepal, generating a devastating flash flood that swept all the way down to Gyirong county in the Tibet autonomous region in China. Some...
Before and after satellite images show a glacier shrinking and a river swelling.
Thousands are feared dead after a churning wall of mud, rock and freezing water bulldozed down the Rasuwa valley, crumpling concrete and washing away entire villages in disaster-movie scenes.
Learn how satellite radar captured the moment a Manhattan-sized ice island broke away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and why scientists are keeping a close watch.
Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past.
A paddler shot and killed a polar bear in northern Manitoba on Friday in a rare Canadian example a recreational traveller killing a member of the protected species.
Huge tracts of the southern forests that stretch from the Victorian border to the Illawarra are still open for logging. The NSW government has raised hopes for their protection if they can earn carbon credits.
Climate change and conflict are conspiring to open up the Arctic to Asian commercial shipping, with China, South Korea and India all eyeing the icy short cut to Europe. Last Saturday, Chinese shipping company Sea Legend launched the first scheduled weekly container service across the top of the world, marking the realisation of Beijing’s long-held ambition to build a “Polar Silk Road”. It will not sail alone for long, however. This Sunday, South Korea’s PanStar Group plans to send its own pilot...
The former manager of the Arctic Bay Hunters and Trappers Association faces charges of fraud over $5,000, bookkeeping fraud and criminal breach of trust.
Ken Nurse, 60, fell 120 feet into a creek at Glacier National Park, suffering serious injuries, before a heroic bystander, Josh Seppelt, came to the rescue and saved his life.
Such discoveries have become more frequent as Switzerland's glaciers have melted at an increasing rate.
Melting sea ice from climate change has opened up the region for giant whales to undertake 'feeding frenzies'.
NSIDC’s analysis site Sea Ice Today returns With the generous support of the Climate Science and Communication Fund from Surge Climate Talent, NSIDC’s Ice Sheets and Sea Ice News and Analysis (ISSINA) is able to start up monthly science assessments for the Sea Ice Today site, which has continued to offer maps and charts of polar sea ice data. However, Ice Sheets Today will remain paused. Science commentary will return for NSIDC’s Sea Ice Today analysis site at the beginning of September 2026. Our format will be similar to previous posts; however, mid-month posts will not resume during the peak Arctic melt season. Our monthly posts will still feature weather and climate conditions of the preceding month, current status of the ice in both hemispheres, and...
Chang’e-7 will sample lunar ice in a polar crater to trace its origins
University Hospitals Trust Plymouth have been re-awarded a contract to provide medical support to the British Antarctic Survey for the next four years. The post University Hospitals Trust Plymouth renew Antarctic medical contract appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Called the Global Glacier Extinction Explorer, the interactive tool is the brainchild of scientists from ETH Zurich and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The extraordinary discovery began when a researcher stumbled across what she believed was an oddly shaped rock nestled in a San Mateo County creek bed over the summer.
When you crank up the temperature and pressure, ice gets really wonky.
A scientist surveying for frogs discovered a rare 10,000-year-old Ice Age Pacific mastodon tooth in a San Mateo County creek in the Bay Area.
The Tara Polar Station – a ship built specifically for polar missions by the French organisation Tara Ocean Foundation – is deliberately allowing itself to become trapped in the sea ice in order to explore the Arctic Ocean. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute are also taking part in the Tara Polaris I expedition (2026–2027). The Tara Polar Station has now reached the ice floe; the resulting drift marks the start of an international research programme planned for the next two decades. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the state of our planet’s only polar ocean, as well as the state of the Earth itself.
[Daily Maverick] Conservation scientist Lee White reflects on four decades spent creating Gabon's national parks, tackling illegal logging and confronting the failures of global carbon markets.
The Origins carbon capture and storage hub, located east of Lacombe, is to initially have capacity to permanently store up to 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together On Alaska’s North Slope, scientists tread carefully across clumps of tussock grasses toward a fast-flowing stream draining the imposing Brooks Range of ice and snow. Near Galbraith Creek, they string out a mist net for white-crowned sparrows. The birds have recently arrived from southerly latitudes, intent on feasting on the insects that will soon descend on the tundra like storm clouds. The Arctic summer is short-lived, and sparrows have only a few weeks to establish territories, find mates, lay eggs and raise their chicks on a steady diet of bugs. From every ensnared bird, the scientists collect blood...
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw isn't convinced that Antarctica is a real place.
Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar ambitions.
“I do not want to stop [searching]. If I pause, I start thinking about my brothers and sisters and all the moments of my life here.” Gui Xinwei, deputy chief of the Gyirong Border Inspection Station, was speaking to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV from the ruins of his workplace, seven days after the devastating mudslide erased the port crossing where China and Nepal meet. “I just don’t want to stop.” Gui was away on holiday on August 26 when a glacier collapsed in Nepal, triggering a massive...
Federal Greens partyroom split over plan for NSW to get millions of dollars’ worth in carbon credits for creating a koala national park Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A New South Wales Greens MP has made an impassioned plea to her federal colleagues, urging them not to vote with the Coalition and One Nation to block a plan for the NSW government to get millions of dollars’ worth in carbon credits for creating a koala national park. Sue Higginson, a former lawyer and forest campaigner turned NSW upper house MP, is the first member of the minor party to speak in detail about a dispute that has split the Greens and environmentalists. Continue reading...
China and Russia have conducted their first joint on-site sea ice survey in the Arctic Ocean aboard the Xuelong 2 research icebreaker, as tensions continue to rise over economic opportunities in the rapidly warming northern region. Two researchers from Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute boarded Xuelong 2 as part of China’s 16th Arctic Ocean Expedition, according to a report by state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday. According to Lin Long, captain of the Xuelong 2 sea ice team, this...
Kathmandu is a place most Koreans know only through Um Hong-gil, the mountaineer who, in 2007, became the first to summit all 16 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 9, September 2026.
In 2024, the Canadian government announced it would spend $81 billion on Arctic defence over 20 years.
The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.
Every year, hundreds of climbers flock to the Himalayas to take on Mount Everest. But a new study has warned that climbers are unknowingly destroying Everest's glacier...with their urine.
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A giant chunk of glacier-covered mountain has collapsed with catastrophic effect and, whatever the mechanics of the disaster in Nepal’s Langtang national park, this is what human-caused climate crisis looks like. The likelihood of it happening again will rise as temperatures increase and the ice within rock and soil formations melts. Anthony Albanese was in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum, speaking with the leaders of countries that could lose some or all of their homelands this century due to sea-level rise driven by emissions from burning fossil fuels. Continue reading...
Learn how radar revealed weeks of movement before the Nepal collapse and what nearly two centuries of glacier loss show about Langtang.
Arctic Report Card: A Close Watch on a Warming Region By Michon Scott The Arctic Report Card, supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is an annual, peer-reviewed snapshot of environmental conditions north of 60°N. Topics range from air temperature to land and sea ice to changes in marine algae to marine debris left by ship traffic to community monitoring programs. As far away as the Arctic may seem, it directly affects the United States. “The United States is an Arctic country,” NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) scientist Walt Meier said. “Alaska is a part of the Arctic. It is strategically important for national security, for commerce, and there are residents, US citizens, who live in the Arctic.” In the early 2000s, scientists...
50 people were recently detained by ICE agents in Danbury, Connecticut, as federal agents ramped up operations in the state.
A clash broke out between groups of hikers when they confronted two tourists who went off trail and disturbed a herd of goats at Montana's Glacier National Park.
The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected area Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s northernmost public community: Grise Fiord in Nunavut, a hamlet of 144 people closer to Murmansk in Russia than the Canadian city of Toronto. The bay’s cliffs loom higher and higher like stone icebergs as he approaches his destination across the bay. Noah pulls his sled carefully over a seal’s breathing hole, about the circumference of a basketball. Using a custom-made winch, he lowers a submersible instrument into the sea below the ice. Continue reading...
A geophysicist at Virginia Tech discovered subtle acceleration measurements in the deceptively slow shifts of ice and rock that preceded August 26’s deadly glacial collapse in Nepal.
Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.
The flooding on Aug. 26 killed more than 1,100 people and left roughly 4,400 missing, after a glacier collapsed in the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China.
Global temperature rise is set to push past 1.5 degrees Celcius, or 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit, within the next few years.
For the first time in recent history, Danish conscripts have been deployed to Greenland, as Denmark moves to bolster its presence in the Arctic after US demands to acquire the territory. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish island, citing national security concerns and accusing Copenhagen of neglecting Arctic defence. Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea. The conscripts are part of the first cohort under Denmark’s new extended...
Leotis Phillips and Zoey Clark were discovered in a wooded area above the Glacier Highway in Juneau, a coastal road near the Glacier Bay National Park, on August 31.
Experts fear that the glaciers that caused the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China remain at risk of collapse, causing another surge of water, ice and debris.
A cascade of changes is underway along its only northern highway. The post In Arctic Alaska, 1.4 million acres of federal land is shifting to state hands appeared first on High Country News.
New York Times: Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes.
Nepal halted rescue work in the flood-hit Trishuli valley on Friday (August 28) after a lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border began to overflow. Wednesday’s (August 26) catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 489 people in Nepal and five in China’s Tibet, with almost 1,000 more missing in the two...
As conflicts around the world highlight the vulnerability of global shipping lanes, China and Russia are reportedly weighing the possibility of turning a vast river into an inland cargo route to the rest of the world. At the heart of this ambition is the 4,248km (2,640-mile) Irtysh River, which originates in China’s western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and runs through Kazakhstan before flowing into Russia’s Ob River and ending in the Arctic Ocean. To China, this river-to-sea shipping route...
Learn how six sensor-wearing narwhals traced warm Atlantic water into Greenland’s fjords, where it may accelerate glacier melt.
Recent floods in Nepal and Tibet followed ICIMOD's warnings about melting glaciers. These reports highlighted doubled ice loss rates and increased flood risks across the region. A catastrophic flash flood triggered by a glacier collapse killed hundreds and left many missing. Smaller glaciers are shrinking faster, intensifying hazards like glacial lake outburst floods. Regional cooperation is vital for understanding and preparing for these cross-border mountain disasters.
To scientists, the cause of this week’s deadly flash flood on the border between China and Nepal is clear: a glacier high on the Nepal side of the Himalayan range collapsed, sending catastrophic amounts of water and debris downstream. Initial uncertainty over the cause of the event fuelled a wave of misinformation on social media, some of which pinned the blame for the event on Chinese-built infrastructure in the region. But a war of information over China’s activities in the region continued to...
Australian government announces 24 expeditioners based at research station on Macquarie Island will be evacuated over possible ‘prolonged psychological stress’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A dolphin has died from H5 bird flu in South Australia, marking the second native mammal species known to have contracted the virus. It comes as the federal government announced it would withdraw researchers from the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island research station due to the “psychosocial risk” of witnessing potential mass seal deaths from H5N1 during the upcoming seal breeding season. Continue reading...
Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates What caused the flash flood in Nepal and Tibet? The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar regions, threatening millions of people. Satellite imagery suggests a glacier collapse high in the Himalayas was the primary cause of the deadly torrent of mud, water and ice that tore along the Bhotekoshi River on Wednesday. It swept away buildings and roads and left at least 360 dead and 1,400 missing. Continue reading...
An ice island the size of Manhattan broke away from one of Greenland's largest glaciers.
On 26 August 2026, the Polarstern achieved an impressive milestone: the German research icebreaker has covered a full two million nautical miles since it entered service on 9 December 1982. Of course, the ship’s crew of around 40 people is always on board, ensuring reliable operations at all times. Up to 55 researchers, working in international teams, investigate processes ranging from the seabed through the water column and all the way through to sea ice and up to the atmosphere.
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from prosecution on charges stemming from a confrontation with ICE agents.
The polar mission is being carried out in order to better define Canada's claim on a portion of the Arctic seafloor, which is also claimed by Russia and Denmark via its autonomous territory Greenland.
The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the 'highly commended' entries in this year's competition.
An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde inferno The ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever recorded, forced more people from their homes than at any point since the second world war and caused what scientists suspect is the country’s first firestorm thundercloud. The smoke from France’s biggest inferno in nearly 80 years choked Limoges, a city 125 miles (200km) from the flames, with more toxic dust than Delhi residents inhaled on the city’s worst day of smog last year. The blaze that tore through forests outside Bordeaux in late July took just a few weeks to reforge France’s relationship with fire, but the conditions behind it were...
The smell of burning from the Blaenavon wildfire was reported 30 miles away in Cardiff.
The orphaned polar bear cub who arrived in the Assiniboine Park Zoo from northern Manitoba is "doing very well," a zoo official told Global News.
Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a dramatic change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier’s floating ice tongue broke away on 4 August 2026.The event marks the glacier’s largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the most significant calving event in the Arctic since 2020 – revealing once again how rapidly Earth’s polar landscapes can change.
The remains of two Belgian hikers who went missing in 1992 were found in a melting glacier in Switzerland.
Learn how retreating sea ice and shifting prey are turning East Greenland into a summer feeding ground for thousands of whales.
South Korea will flag off on Saturday a container ship bound for Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice can be commercially viable, but risking friction with Western allies, as the voyage requires Russian cooperation. If successful, the trip would be South Korea’s first such commercial voyage to Europe via the Arctic, placing it with China and Russia among the few countries whose shipping firms have tested or run cargo services along the route. Sailing north...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler and Zeke Hausfather Global temperatures are predicted to soar due to the El Niño event that is currently ramping up. Most forecasts predict that 2027 will set records, with the global average temperature reaching levels we would not expect until the late 2030s. This plot, from the Washington Post and one of us (ZH), shows how 2027’s temperatures could rise to levels expected in 2037. To what extent does this upcoming El Niño give us a preview of what the climate will be like a decade or two from now? What is El Niño? Here’s what one of us (AD) wrote in his climate textbook : The best-known example of unforced variability in our climate is...
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica has contracted sharply and is at its second-lowest point on record for this time of year, satellite data shows.