Melting Glaciers: Clues to Climate Change
Essays
As a Peruvian ice cap melts because of global warming, an ancient relic is discovered thawed at its margin.
Why are scientists so eager to suffer numbing temperatures, oxygen-poor altitudes, and severe sunburn in order to obtain these frozen cylinders? Find out what’s at stake.
Sometimes it’s hot, sometimes it’s not: how scientists explain the last 2.7 million years of fickle climate history.
Climate change isn’t always slow and gentle. Sometimes the climate can pull a fast one.
Recent research on abrupt climate change reveals how a local deep freeze can
make a global impact.
Follow a team of glaciologists racing to core the world's largest tropical ice
cap--before global warming melts it away.
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