This week, the heart of Canada’s polar region will be milder than cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

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

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 ...

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 tenth and coldest polar vortex of the season is blasting ... Worst hit will be the north-central region, with windchills ...

"With the same pioneering spirit as early polar explorers, we aim to bring back new data and knowledge to advance the long-term goals of space exploration," said mission commander Chun Wang.

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 ...

In addition to their polar region observations, Fram2 will participate in studies investigating the effects of microgravity on the human body, which will include the first-ever X-ray image of a ...

YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel now under construction here will be capable of smashing through sea ice up to 1.2 meters thick to reach the northern polar region to study sea ...