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August 17, 2016
Any tourist bound for Greenland or Alaska on a cruise ship would be happy to capture video of a huge chunk of ice as it calves from the face of a …
Naomi Lubick
March 10, 2016
As a young boy, Ted Scambos was fascinated by space and technology, and spent many hours watching aircraft take off and land at the Air Force …
Terri Cook
September 17, 2015
If it has to do with frozen water, Erin Pettit has probably studied it. As an associate professor of geology and geophysics at the University of …
Julia Rosen
January 13, 2015
If you don’t know who Richard Alley is, stop reading for a minute and search for him on YouTube. Go on, this can wait. Back? What you likely saw …
Sam Lemonick
January 4, 2015
As a child growing up in Gassaway, W.Va., Lonnie Thompson was poor. When his father died while Thompson was a senior in high school, he realized …
Terri Cook
January 5, 2012
A tale of glaciers, man, rocks and North America
Out of the mist that blankets the gently rolling hills of Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge rises …
Brian S. John and Lionel E. Jackson Jr.