Italy's Mont Blanc Glacier Could Collapse As Ice Rapidly Melts, Scientists Warn The Italian side of Mont Blanc glacier is at risk of collapsing due to increased ice melt linked to climate change, scientists and local officials warn. If the popular hiking spot...

Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to...

The World's Most Adventurous Women 2019 Meet the new adventure icons. From rock climber and mountaineer Emily Harrington scaling massive caves in China to big-wave surfer Maya Gabeira staring down a 68-foot wave in Portugal, here are 17 of the most adventurous women...

Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people...

Giving Science Back to the Citizens Patrick Rowe is a science technician with the organization Science in the Wild and owner of Midwest ROV, LLC. We spoke about his career, the role of support staff in scientific endeavors, and the importance of everyday citizens in...

Flash floods threaten more people than thought, as ice melts The Himalaya, the breathtaking consequence of the battle between two tectonic plates, is home to spectacular mountains and a family of glaciers whose waters sustain 1.65 billion people across the region. The...

The Alpinist Becoming an Astronaut Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj has always been an explorer, interested in the mysteries of planet earth and the space beyond it. One of her first research projects investigated how solar sails could be used to deliver supplies into outer...

Boulder trio of scientists found challenging, changing 'laboratory' at Baffin Island Three Boulder scientists who ventured onto Baffin Island’s Penny Ice Cap last month to conduct science on a shoestring are back in Boulder safely, untouched by bears but with deepened...

Ice Trailblazers When Ulyana Horodyskyj was six she visited the Swiss Alps and fell in love with the mountains... https://www.scribd.com/document/97886929/Cosmos

Glacial Lake's Disappearing Act Caught on Film In mere days this June, a glacial lake in the Himalayas lost the equivalent of 42 Olympic-size swimming pools of water and then slowly refilled. And for the first time, scientists caught this disappearing-reappearing...

Himalayan Glacial Lakes Some scientists conduct their experiments in a laboratory — think clean white walls, artificial lighting, A.C. and a convenient coffee pot not far away. Not so for Ulyana Horodyskyj, a graduate student at the University of Colorado....

Remote Mountain Peaks are a Boulder Scientist's Laboratory “We have a portable laboratory,” Horodyskyj says.  “Sometimes we carry loads of fifty or sixty pounds up and down the mountain.”   Horodyskyj wants to know how black carbon pollution (commonly known as soot)...

Taking a glacier's pulse Ulyana Horodyskyj rappels down a ridge on the Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalaya mountain range. Working at about 5,000 m above sea level — Tibet to the north and Nepal to the south — her stunning view of snow-capped peaks is breathtaking....

Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming. But they also conceal a more ominous effect of climate change: they are deflating. They are losing internal ice mass to melting, which...

Taking the pulse of Ngozumpa It's not the greatest glacier to look at - far from it. It's smothered in a layer of rocky debris that's fallen from the surrounding cliffs, giving it a very grey, dirty appearance. But Ngozumpa is generating a lot of scientific interest...