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The world’s melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?

Melting glaciers and ice caps are far from where most people live. But the impacts stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.

Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier

Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect them?

The unexpected link between imperiled whales and Greenland’s melting ice

Climate change is pushing already imperiled whales to the brink, a sign of deeper shifts in the oceans as the world’s ice melts.

The surprising connection between Arctic ice and Western wildfires

The planet’s ice is fundamentally tethered to weather patterns that stretch across the globe. Scientists are finding that as the climate changes, that connection could be helping fuel disasters.