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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
Homeowners celebrate the completion of their new home in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff.

In Partnership With Habitat For Humanity →

Culture, Family

A safe, stable home can change lives for the better. Here’s how Habitat for Humanity wants to make that possible for everyone.

Sarah Watts

3/25/2026
Photo credit: Business Insider Science/YouTube – A map imagining what the United States would look like partially covered in water

Climate Change, Popular, Science

What the world looks like if all the land ice melts

Upworthy Staff

11/13/2025
Photo credit: Canva – A glacier in Antarctica just "retreat" by half its size in a shockingly fast amount of time.

Conservation, Science

A glacier the size of Philadelphia just did something scientists have never seen. They’re alarmed.

Evan Porter

11/11/2025
Photo credit: British Ecological Society – Spreading coffee pulp over barren land lead to rapid forest growth.

Popular, Science, Sustainability

Researchers dumped coffee waste into a forest and couldn’t believe what it looked like 2 years later

Tod Perry

6/5/2025
Photo credit: Exposure Labs – A sheet of ice the size of Manhattan tumbled into the sea.

Popular

The most dramatic proof of our current climate catastrophe ever caught on camera

Upworthy Staff

5/7/2025
Photo credit: Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash, Map by USDA-ARS and Oregon State University (Public Domain) – The USDA has issued a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Climate Change, Popular, Science

Americans see gardening changes as ‘plant hardiness zones’ shift across half the U.S.

Annie Reneau

1/27/2025
Photo credit: Array – Array

Climate Change, Popular, Science

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

Upworthy Staff

1/14/2025
Photo credit: via U.S Army Cadet Commons/Flickr – The U.S. Army's heat stroke training.

Health, Popular, Public Health

Here’s a military trick that can help you cool down in minutes, even in scorching heat

Tod Perry

12/14/2024
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: via KindikiKithure/X – Kenyans plant trees on its new "special holiday."

Climate Change, Science

Kenyans got a ‘special holiday’ to plant trees that could significantly fight climate change

Tod Perry

11/14/2023
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: Photo by NOAA on Unsplash – Change is possible.

Climate Change, Science

New study shows ozone layer has made ‘significant milestone’ in its recovery

Heather Wake

9/22/2022
Photo credit: via Oda Product Tech/Medium – Oda's climate impact receipt.

Education & Information, Innovation, Planet, Popular, Sustainability, Technology

A grocery store added climate impact to its receipts and it changed how its customers shop

Tod Perry

1/27/2022
Heroes

Ingrid Michaelson just put a terrifying and topical twist on one of her hit songs.

Evan Porter

10/26/2017
Heroes

It may sound weird, but Lego is quietly trying to ditch plastics.

James Gaines

8/4/2017