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Photo credit: aCredit: Wikicommons and Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery – The Pasterze Glacier in a 1900 postcard and in March 2025

Climate Change, Science

This glacier was featured on a postcard in 1900. A satellite captured where it is today.

Eric Pfeiffer

12/6/2025
An Operation Smile volunteer reverses an oxygen mask so a child with a cleft condition can blow a bubble for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Operation Smile Photos)

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Family, Science

How Bubbles Help Kids with Cleft Conditions

Sarah Watts

5/11/2026
Photo credit: Canva – Ancient Hawaiians were agricultural masters.

Climate Change, Science

Ancient Hawaiian land system could transform sustainability’s future—and it’s going viral

Kat Hong

5/3/2025
Photo credit: Photo: courtesy BioCarbon Engineering/WikiCommons – Array

Innovation, Popular, Science

Drones fired ‘seed missiles’ into the dirt. A year later, the trees are already 20 inches tall.

Upworthy Staff

9/2/2024
Photo credit: via Pixabay/Pexels – What would happen if all the ice melted?

Popular

What would happen if all the Earth’s ice melted?

Tod Perry

2/9/2024
Photo credit: Image from Jill Pelto, used with permission. – Artist Jill Pelto says more than you think in her paintings.

Heroes, Popular

Artist creates stunning watercolor paintings that are scientific charts in disguise

James Gaines

8/18/2023
Photo credit: Screenshot via Technorites/YouTube – Array

Education & Information, Nature, Planet, Popular, Sustainability, Top Splash

The climate crisis has led to a strange new animal hybrid. Meet the ‘pizzly bear.’

Annie Reneau

4/20/2021
Photo credit: via Amazon – Array

Planet, Popular

8 products you should own if you actually care about sustainability

Tod Perry

11/26/2019
Heroes

How these teens convinced Utah Republicans to accept the impact of climate change.

Eric Pfeiffer

5/22/2018
Heroes

What lies beyond the northernmost city on Earth? A beautiful, complicated land.

James Gaines

8/1/2017
Heroes

How India managed to plant 66 million trees in a single day and why we should copy them.

James Gaines

7/7/2017
Heroes

A viral hashtag about keeping cool in the summer has the internet cracking up.

Parker Molloy

6/29/2017
Heroes

An ancient and stunning natural wonder is dying. It should be a wake-up call to all of us.

Evan Porter

4/10/2017
Most Shared

It snowed in the Sahara. Yes, it’s gorgeous. No, it doesn’t mean climate change is fake.

Evan Porter

12/21/2016
Photo credit: Photo by Vince Gx on Unsplash – A sunny day at the Saarland Glacier near the North Pole.

Most Shared

Want to know what the North Pole is really like? We asked an Arctic researcher.

Jon Comulada

12/14/2016
Heroes, More

Climate change could change what we eat. It’s already happening in Africa.

Simone Scully

11/8/2016