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Environment
Scientists study why some of Central Asia’s glaciers are resilient to climate change
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Kathmandu's air quality is notorious. Now there's an Air Quality Index to measure just how bad.
Health
Nepal’s air pollution threatens humans and glaciers
Bolivia’s dried-out Ajuan Khota dam, a reservoir affected by drought near La Paz, photographed on Nov. 17.
Environment
With melting glaciers and mining, Bolivia’s water is running dangerously low
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to
Environment
In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
A calving glacier off Greenland
Environment
A seven-year-old photo captures the thunderous changes in Arctic glacier melt