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Experts say it is unusual for the 4,478m peak to be snow-free at this time of year, with climate change considered a key factor.

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Understanding how Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere formed and evolved could help to explain how Earth became, and remains, habitable. This Review...

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...

This rock lover carries his musical inspirations with him as he peers far back in geologic time.

A tubular marine creature that lived on the seafloor more than 540 million years ago may have survived in toxic, sulfur-rich waters by teaming up with bacteria.

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production

The Ukrainian judicial watchdog Dejure argued in June that "rather than improving the integrity declaration system, (the integrity declarations law) effectively dismantles integrity declarations as a ...

CIRES scientists use satellites to uncover how and when the first known ice shelf estuary formed on the Greenland Ice Sheet

‘Liming’ to reduce soil acidity has long been considered a carbon dioxide source, but in North America’s largest river basin, it has resulted in net capture of atmospheric carbon.

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 20, 2026 thru Sat, September 26, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (8 items)

Canada’s first deep geological repository (DGR) for nuclear waste may be designated as a project of national interest, meaning federal approvals for the $26-billion endeavour may be streamlined. The s...

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

As the French wine industry reaches a crisis point, key players are considering new markets, products and generations.

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

Oilfield Witness identified 532 unpermitted emission events reported by Freeport LNG since 2019, but just seven penalty fines levied by Texas’ environmental regulator.

The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system st...