Climate Change

“You know, we’re not talking about some smoky, old wood stove here. We’re talking about high-tech equipment,” said Daniel Parrent, a program manager at the U.S. Forest Service.

Residents want the state and federal governments to move their village before it is swallowed by a rising ocean.

The Cook Inlet Beluga Ecosystem Portal is a one-stop shop for beluga data that its creators hope will help scientists and the public make more informed decisions in the future.

Scientists are scrambling to calibrate a month of missing data.

It’s been there for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of years — a huge, solid, endless mass of white ice. Then, all of sudden (“It’s starting, Adam,” says an onlooker) there’s a crack, then another, and whoosh, an immense field vanishes — splits, splits again, and right before your eyes (you’ve got to see this) sinks into the sea. This is how ice leaves our planet.

That’s the sad situation facing thousands of Peruvians who climb a mountain for the ‘Snow Star’ festival, which starts on Sunday.