"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The Fram2 mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, is funded by Chinese-born Chun Wang.

Polar diatomic molecules, consisting of potassium and rubidium, have been created with density and temperature close to the regime of quantum degeneracy. The ability to produce ultracold atoms has ...

Arctic winds from a powerful polar vortex are sweeping across several ... According to the Windy weather map, temperatures ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole, and is home to lots of species such as penguins, whales, mosses, and lichens. Challenges in Antarctica One of the biggest challenges Antarctica faces is climate ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...

The dots on the left map show the locations where samples from Greenland polar bears were collected. The new Southeast Greenland population, shown as red dots, is located between 60 and 64 degrees ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions ... Researchers are also concerned about the Greenland Ice Sheet, the region’s main expanse of land ice.

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) will begin building a new massive icebreaker in fiscal 2021 to conduct research in the north polar region. It comes as Arctic ...