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• What it’s like at the ground zero of climate change

  When a glacier breaks up, the images can be breathtaking — and a sobering reminder of the trouble we are in. Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson managed to document one of these moments when he was in Greenland with scientists earlier this year.
  

  CNN | September 24, 2018
• Distant Whirling-Dervish Stars Spin in Super-Weird Patterns

  "In space, you have continuous data," study lead author Othman Benomar, a stellar scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi, told Space.com.
  

  Space.com | September 21, 2018
• Astrophysicists measure precise rotation pattern of sun-like stars for the first time

  Scientists at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Space Science used observations from NASA's Kepler mission and asteroseismology—the study of sound waves traveling inside stars—to determine with precision how Sun-like stars rotate, which no other scientific method has been able to achieve.
  

  Phys.org | September 20, 2018
• Harsh climate: The struggle to track global sea level rise

  A loud rumble jolted climate scientist David Holland just before he went to sleep inside his bear-resistant dome. The thundering sound grew louder as he watched a chunk of ice about a third the size of Manhattan break away from the Helheim glacier.
  

  Reuters | September 20, 2018
• In Greenland, a glacier's collapse shows climate impact - Video

  Perched on a cliff above Greenland’s Helheim glacier, I tried calling my wife in New York on a satellite phone. Before I could leave a message, an explosion broke the arctic silence.
  

  Reuters | September 20, 2018