Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art

[ad_1] For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers in the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He’s been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape, as the effects of human-caused climate change on glaciers becomes even more starkly…

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A robotics activist's remarkable crusade

[ad_1] Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn’t prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of adaptive robotic tech to help disabled people – or from writing country songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone…

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Hurricane Erin likely to bring “life-threatening surf and rip currents” to East Coast. Maps show its path and forecast.

[ad_1] Hurricane Erin is likely to bring “life-threatening surf and rip currents” across the U.S. East Coast this week, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday. Erin, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2025, restrengthened back into a Category 4 storm Sunday night as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean. It exploded…

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