Researchers Scott Landolt and Mark Seefeldt set up an automatic snowfall measuring system in Antarctica.

An unexpected challenge on Antarctica: Measuring snowfall

The amount of snowfall is an important parameter used in modeling how the Antarctic continent’s mass of ice will change in the coming decades. As the planet warms, the margins of the continent are melting three times faster than just one decade ago.
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What Thwaites Glacier can tell us about the future of West Antarctica

An international group of researchers launched a five-year, roughly $50 million project to study Thwaites Glacier, a remote, and notoriously foul-weathered, glacier in the middle of West Antarctica.
Woman at a demonstration

The 'Green New Deal' started with six college grads. Now, they're recruiting an army of young people.

The Green New Deal is often linked to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman congresswoman who is the idea’s most visible champion. But in its current form, it’s the brainchild of a bunch of 20-somethings sick of older generations’ inaction on climate change.
A group of school children hold signs that read "12 years left"

From the Amazon to the Arctic, The World’s biggest environmental stories of the year

Dire warnings about climate change made headlines this fall, but it wasn’t all bad news: Cape Town avoided Day Zero, kids led grown-ups in action on global warming, and scientists launched Antarctic research to better predict rising seas.
Two adults sit at the front of an elementary school classroom as children's heads fill the bottom of the frame.

These fourth graders penned climate change poetry inspired by our coverage

A story from The World inspired a Boston 4th grader to write a poem about climate change and the Amazon. Then her whole class got into the act.
A man wearing googles holds up a sign that says "stop fossil fuel! there is no border in the sky!"

The world struck a major climate deal in Poland. So, what’s in it?

Negotiators created rules to help the world meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. But the UN climate chief still told the delegation, "Climate change is still running faster than us."
At the Wellesley recycling center, just west of Boston, residents drop their recyclables into 43 different sorting stations.

New Chinese policy is forcing people to think: Is there a better way to recycle?

For years, the model for American recycling was pretty simple: throw it in a bin, then let China deal with the mess. But no longer.
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US a wild card as climate negotiators race to meet Friday deadline

Negotiators are far from the breakthrough agreement that most say is needed at the UN climate summit in Poland. And fingers are being pointed at the US for playing the heavy.
abandonded house with encroaching seawater

UN compact recognizes climate change as driver of migration for first time

We talk about "climate refugees" all the time. But they don't exist. In fact, those displaced by climate change have no special protections under international law. But that may be changing.
The tops of buildings are barely visible through a thick layer of smog.

Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal

Coal smog can make many poles feel like they're living in the 19th century. Now a growing grassroots movement is pushing local and national governments to cut smog and rethink the country's heavy reliance on coal.

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