Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.
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A New Approach to Forecasting Toxic Metals in Wildfire Smoke
In early July 2026, Stanford postdoctoral researcher Alex Honeyman and graduate student Mark Leone attached a box the size of a briefcase to a firetruck in Colorado that was about to be dispatched to a wildfire 300 miles away.
Wildfire Smoke May Be More Harmful Than Other Air Pollution, Two Mount Sinai Studies Find
Wildfire-related PM2.5 linked to higher hospitalization risks for cardiovascular and respiratory disease and poorer survival among people with lung cancer.
MIT Makes Progress on Campus Climate Goals
In 2021, MIT set campus decarbonization goals as part of its Fast Forward climate action plan.
SwRI Study Finds Evidence of Liquid Recently Flowing on Pluto’s Surface
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto’s surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet’s surface.
Ice Loss in the Antarctic: Numerous Blind Spots
Geographers at FAU involved in international study – a lack of data hampers reliable prediction of rising global sea levels.




