EditorialMallotus villosus, Print, The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf....
EditorialImages provided by NASA show, clockwise from top left, the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica splintering and collapsing from Jan. 31 to April 13, 2002. (NASA Earth Observatory via The New York Times)
EditorialA March 17, 2022, satellite image over East Antarctica provided by the U.S. National Ice Center shows the largest fragment of the collapsed Conger ice shelf, an iceberg named C-38.
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier, which helps to keep the much larger West Antarctic Ice Shelf stable. (NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck via The New York Times)
EditorialPhotograph - by George Rayner, Antarctica, circa 1920s, Photograph taken during a series of scientific expeditions undertaken in the waters off Antarctica, during the late 1920s and 1930s. Probably taken by George W. Rayner, who was employed as a biolo...
EditorialMallotus villosus, Print, The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf....