ice
-
Native Americans caught salmon here for millennia. Now the world is hooked.
On the Northwest's Columbia River, tribes fish for a new prosperity.
-
In Greenland, abandoned oil drums turn into fleeting art
Julia Edith Rigby was fascinated by trash near a Greenland village -- so she made it into art.
-
Watch the Arctic’s ice shrink to its near-record low, in 3 graphs
2016 has been a rough year for the Arctic.
-
It’s not truly cold in NYC until you can cross the East River on foot
This has happened in the past. Numerous times, in fact!
-
Watch people light a frozen lake on fire
Better than lighting the methane coming out of your sink on fire.
-
This 18-mile-long crack in Antarctic ice could birth an iceberg bigger than Manhattan
It might look like a hairline fracture from that far above, but it's actually massive.
-
These weird spinning ice disks are the new crop circles
Check out this strange international phenomenon.
-
Russian rivers are clogged with frozen oil
Whatever terrors the U.S. oil industry might come up with, the Russian oil industry is worse. Greenpeace’s Jon Burgwald recently visited Usinsk, a frigid city that’s a major Russian oil outpost. The oil pollution is so bad in this area that thawing rivers run black with oil. There’s even oil ice, which you can see […]
-
Climate change could make Mt. Everest impossible to climb
If you’ve got “summit Everest” on your bucket list, better get started now. Apa Sherpa (aka “Super Sherpa”), who’s summited Mt. Everest 21 times, tells Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the trip up the mountain is getting increasingly dangerous as climate change sets in. As Himalayan glaciers melt, bare rock — slippery, treacherous, more prone to […]