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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation on Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press

Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tour ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Donald Trump’s penchant for visual cruelty

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.
Imja Lake, a glacial lake in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, began as meltwater ponds in 1962 and now contains 90 million cubic meters of water. Its water level was lowered to protect downstream communities. Alton Byers

As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millions

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.
Immigrant farmworkers pick strawberries in California in April 2024. Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Deporting millions of immigrants would shock the US economy, increasing housing, food and other prices

While immigrants without legal authorization make up about 5% of the U.S. workforce, these workers are concentrated in particular industries, including agriculture.
Air bubbles trapped in ice cores taken from the Antarctic contain valuable information about past changes in the composition of the atmosphere. Xavier FAIN/IPEV/LGGE/CNRS

What CO₂ ‘jumps’ from Antarctic ice say about climate change

The equivalent of four more years of global CO₂ emissions could soon be released into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change.
Ice and snow cover on a boreal forest lake in winter (Lake Simoncouche, Saguenay, Québec). (Noémie Gaudreault)

Lakes don’t sleep in winter! There’s a world living under ice

Canadians are no strangers to cold winters, when everything in nature appears to be frozen solid. However, under the ice cover of lakes, many animals remain active during the winter.

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