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COVER STORY: Capturing the melting of glaciers, with information and art | Watch Video
For much than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers successful the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors supply different presumption of the drastically-changing landscape, arsenic the effects of human-caused clime alteration connected glaciers becomes adjacent much starkly apparent. [This communicative was provided by Climate Central.]

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ALMANAC: August 17 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks backmost astatine humanities events connected this date.

TELEVISION: Becoming a TV commercialized icon (Video)
You cognize them arsenic Flo, the Progressive Insurance saleswoman; Mayhem, the quality embodiment of disasters covered by Allstate; and the unstoppable dancer from the Jardiance diabetes cause ads. Correspondent David Pogue talks with actors Stephanie Courtney, Dean Winters and Deanna Colon astir however becoming nationally celebrated via TV commercials has (or hasn't) changed their lives. (Original aerial date: Feb. 9, 2025.)

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ARTS: Rashid Johnson connected creation arsenic a root of imaginable joyousness (Video)
Artist Rashid Johnson has utilized aggregate media and materials to make works that analyse race, masculinity, identity, aesthetics, and (he says) his ain anxiety. Now, Johnson's vocation is the absorption of an accumulation astatine the Guggenheim New York, "A Poem for Deep Thinkers." Correspondent Alina Cho reports.

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Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, astatine the Guggenheim Museum, New York City (through Jan. 18, 2026)
Exhibition Catalogue: "Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers" (Guggenheim), successful Hardcover format, disposable via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
Rashid Johnson (Hauser & Wirth)
Rashid Johnson connected Instagram

MUSIC: Laufey connected creating her ain sound | Watch Video
Whimsical and romantic, the euphony of Icelandic vocalist and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, oregon Laufey, blends pop, jazz, classical and bossa nova – a "mishmash," she calls it, which has led to sold-out shows, bestselling albums, and a Grammy Award. With her 3rd album, "A Matter of Time," being released this week, she sits down with analogous Tracy Smith to sermon her philharmonic tastes; her absorption to the effect of young fans; and the thrill of singing a duet with Barbra Streisand of a opus she composed, "Letter To My 13-Year-Old Self."

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interrogation - Laufey (Video)
The Icelandic vocalist and instrumentalist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, who records nether the sanction Laufey, talks with "Sunday Morning" analogous Tracy Smith astir the ambiguity she finds portion composing music. She besides discusses going viral during the COVID pandemic by posting her performances of jazz standards online; the blurring of genres; and becoming a span for younger audiences to research accepted jazz and classical, arsenic she records euphony portion playing piano, guitar and cello. She besides performs "Dreamer," from her medium "Bewitched."

To perceive Laufey performing "Silver Lining," from her medium "A Matter of Time," click connected the video subordinate below:

Laufey - Silver Lining (Official Music Video) by Laufey on YouTube

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The Summit: Trump's diplomatic gambit, and Putin's prize 03:48

WORLD: The Summit: Trump's diplomatic gambit, and Putin's prize (Video)
The archetypal gathering betwixt the American and Russian presidents since Vladimir Putin launched his warfare connected Ukraine three-and-a-half years agone resulted successful nary ceasefire, and nary factual results. So, what did President Trump and President Putin achieve? CBS News main governmental expert John Dickerson offers position connected a gathering ended successful a fog of diplomatic ambiguity.

A robotics activist's singular crusade 07:03

TECH: A robotics activist's singular crusade (Video)
Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley enforcement Henry Evans had a monolithic changeable that near him mute and paralyzed from the cervix down. But that didn't forestall him from becoming a starring advocator of adaptive robotic tech to assistance disabled radical – oregon from penning state songs, 1 missive astatine a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Evans astir his upbeat cognition and improbable pursuits.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robots unfastened up the satellite of creation (Video)
The De Young, 1 of San Francisco's good creation museums, present has 2 robots that unfastened the depository up to those who cannot attend, including the physically handicapped. John Blackstone reports connected the state-of-the-art successful depository circuit guides, and interviews robotics activistic Henry Evans, a erstwhile Silicon Valley enforcement who is present astir wholly paralyzed, and who worked with the depository to marque touring by robot a reality. (Air date: March 1, 2025.)

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THESE UNITED STATES: America's archetypal currency harvest (Video)
Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries earlier Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports connected however increasing baccy became America's archetypal currency harvest – and ingrained successful the nation's civilization for generations.

TV: "Severance" prima Adam Scott | Watch Video
Actor Adam Scott (who antecedently starred successful the sitcom "Parks and Recreation") is the Emmy-nominated pb successful the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ bid "Severance," astir workers astatine a mysterious corp whose brains are altered to make distinctly abstracted personalities successful and retired of the office. He talks with analogous Conor Knighton astir his 30-year way to this caput travel of a series, and what it took for him to propulsion it off. Knighton besides talks with manager Ben Stiller astir however the surreal amusement came together.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interrogation - Adam Scott (Video)
Actor Adam Scott, prima of the surreal Apple TV+ bid "Severance," talks with analogous Conor Knighton astir however the fascination with TV and movie shoots originated for him. He besides discusses looking for melodramatic roles aft becoming known arsenic a comic prima successful the sitcom "Parks and Recreation"; and however helium responded to the fame that came with the occurrence of "Severance."

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Severance — Opening Title Sequence: Season 2 | Apple TV+ by Apple TV on YouTube

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers immoderate of the notable figures who near america this week, including erstwhile kid histrion Danielle Spencer, prima of the 1970s sitcom "What's Happening!!"

NATIONAL: A pilgrimage to the table with the top view | Watch Video
In the precocious 1970s, a radical of assemblage students successful West Texas, wanting a spot to survey with a view, hauled a table to the apical of Hancock Hill (elevation: 4,900 feet), successful the municipality of Alpine. Today, the table is simply a pilgrimage for hikers seeking a meditative place, who permission down messages successful the desk's notebook. Correspondent Janet Shamlian reports connected what has go a unsocial question destination.

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Sul Ross Desk, Alpine, Texas (Atlas Obscura)
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MILEPOST: So long, Joe Frandino! (Video)
"Sunday Morning" says goodbye to seasoned exertion Joseph Frandino, retiring aft galore years present astatine CBS News.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Recovering from loss, a household finds strength (2017)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: When Mitch Albom recovered Chika (2019)

NATURE: Providence Canyon successful Georgia (Extended Video)
We permission you this Sunday astatine Providence Canyon successful Southwest Georgia. Videographer: Darrall Johnson.

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Marathon: The marvels of Alaska by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: The marvels of Alaska (YouTube Video)
Explore the majesty of the 49th State with these entertaining stories from the "Sunday Morning" archives:

Charles Osgood looks backmost connected the 1867 acquisition of Alaska (2008)
A sojourn to the Gates of the Arctic National Park (2017)
Surfing successful the frigid waters disconnected Yakutat, Alaska (2000)
Luke Burbank connected a grueling 750-mile vessel contention from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska (2017)
How WWII soldiers and laborers helped pave the mode for Alaska's enlargement (1992)
Prince William Sound, 5 years aft the Exxon Valdez catastrophe (1994)
The World Ice Art Championships successful Fairbanks, Alaska (2015)
Raising sled dogs successful Denali National Park (2016)
Lee Cowan visits Whittier, Alaska, wherever astir the full colonisation lives nether the aforesaid extortion (2021)
The hunt for the remains of a U.S. Air Force unit mislaid successful a level clang connected an Alaskan glacier successful 1952 (2022)
Humorist David Sedaris connected the highlights of his travel to Alaska (2022)
Conor Knighton takes a thrust connected the Alaska Railroad (2023)
Nature: Northern Lights (2024)

GALLERY: LOLLAPALOOZA 2025
Scroll done our assemblage of immoderate of 2025's starring unrecorded acts, including from Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, featuring images by CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.

Coffee civilization astir the world by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: An ode to java lovers (YouTube Video)
"CBS Sunday Morning" serves up a affluent cookware of stories astir the varieties of java brewed crossed countries and cultures.

A Tokyo café wherever customers are connected deadline
Taste investigating with artificial quality
The concealed down bodega java
True espresso love: Attending a assemblage of java
Jim Gaffigan: Decaf java is un-American
Almanac: Instant java
A toast to Irish java
Bringing Yemeni java backmost to America
Pumpkin spice takes implicit the satellite
How single-serve java became a "must-have"
Coffee for a smile

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David Morgan

David Morgan is elder shaper for CBSNews.com and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." He writes astir film, euphony and the arts. He is writer of the books "Monty Python Speaks" and "Knowing the Score," and exertion of "Sundancing," astir the Sundance Film Festival.

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