"Nature Communications"

The Juneau Icefield is home to the Mendenhall and more than a thousand other glaciers. Ice there has melted especially fast over the last decade — twice as quickly as it did before 2010. 

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

Researchers estimate that soot, or black carbon, pollution in the most popular and accessible part of Antarctica is causing an extra inch of snowpack shrinkage every year.

Physicists have long speculated about what gives rise to this very specific light phenomenon that occurs in the Earth’s polar regions.