LATELY: Disappearing Glaciers, at Glacier

Glacier National Park, of Northwestern Montana, has lost two more of the icefields for which it is famous. According to Discovery News, the latest two to fall below the 25 acre threshold had "shrunk by roughly 55 percent since the mid-1960s." Once boasting as many as 150 glaciers, the Park now counts only 25, and scientists warn that those, too, could disappear before the decade's end.

We pause here to commend the prescience of Discovery News: after delivering the troubling item from above, it is as if the editors there heard our collective sigh and immediately sought to supplant despondency with wonder. They succeeded; turns out that global warming also stimulates mountain growth.