In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of March 15, 2025. The middle map is a close up of the Antarctic Peninsula through the same time frame. The graph shows the daily ...

The suburban reservoirs that supply 10% of New York City's vaunted drinking water are getting saltier due to decades of road salt being spread near the system — and they will eventually have to be ...

THERE is a little street in York called the Shambles. It is a charming, narrow medieval thoroughfare just south of the ...

Journeying from pole to pole, we reveal the surprising frozen worlds that exist across the planet and the remarkable animals ...

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We cast our eyes up a trail marked along the ice and toward the starting line back up on land ... I ask Charlie, who is ...

To serve as camp doctor at what he was told was a polar research station ... beneath the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet. Uncle Sam “sent me to sit under the ice cap 800 miles (about 1,300 ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica ... support for research on the melting of polar ice sheets, the evolution of subglacial ...

A new analysis of data from one of the instruments aboard Chandrayaan-3 suggests that there was a good probability that water-ice was present in locations outside of the polar regions of the Moon.

New findings based on data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest that water-ice on the Moon may be present beyond its polar regions. A recent study, conducted by scientists at the Physical ...