Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Researchers calculated every glacier’s lifespan and found that even at the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the planet ...

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For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the "Doomsday Glacier" -- is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Its future behavior remains one of the ...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with members of the Morehouse family, a clan with generational ties to northern Cayuga ...

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From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History magazine draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History connects people everywhere to Earth’s unfolding story. Its researchers, scientific collections, free exhibitions and educational programs address ...