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5 stories match “climate”

1. Science · Climate

   Reading a Glacier Like a Ledger

   …equilibrium line, and its average height is one of the clearest readings there is of the climate a glacier is living in. For a glacier to hold its size, roughly 60 percent of its surface needs to sit above that…

   Erik Lindqvist · Jan 14, 2026 · 13 min read

2. Culture · Archives

   The Last Lighthouse Keepers Are Writing It All Down

   …have readers, and not the ones anyone expected. Oona Garvie, a climatologist at the Marine Climate Unit in Halbridge, first climbed the stairs to the Corn Room in 2024, looking for barometer readings. Before satellites,…

   Ruth Hollis · Oct 15, 2026 · 14 min read

3. Science · Ecology

   Counting Mushrooms for Forty Autumns

   …numbers fell by 80 percent, a reminder that not every change in a forest is written by the climate. “That one I took personally,” Ekland said. “I used to have to step around them.” Whether two weeks matters depends…

   Erik Lindqvist · Aug 19, 2026 · 7 min read

4. Science · Measurement

   The Volunteers Who Have Measured One Harbour’s Tide Since 1890

   …early 1990s, and computer models can estimate how sea level ought to respond to a warming climate, but both need checking against what has actually happened on real coastlines, over spans long enough to see a…

   Ilona Varga · Apr 23, 2026 · 8 min read

5. Ideas · Work

   What We Owe the Night Shift

   …absence of managers. “No one in a suit after ten,” she used to say, as though describing a climate. Gerrit prefers the night routes because nobody shouts at him. There is a culture to the night—a solidarity, a…

   Mika Sato · Nov 4, 2025 · 6 min read