A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Polar has no shortage of flavors rounding out its seltzer lineup. We taste-tested 20 of these flavors and ranked them all ...

You had to catch a plane to Kangerlussuaq, a tiny town 320 kilometres away and the site of a former US Air Force base and, from there, fly in a hair-raising turboprop. Even the official visitor ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...

The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures climb again, but over the last three decades, satellites have observed a 13% decline per decade in the summertime ...

Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you want it cold enough for ice caps to form. According to a model of the geological forces shaping the climate over the past 420 ...

Surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are warming more rapidly than anywhere else on the planet. The Arctic ice cap is composed mainly of sea ice, and not ice on land. Sea ice fluctuates with the ...

For billions of years, Earth has been a planet without ice caps. Vast oceans, lush forests, and volcanic landscapes have dominated its surface. The ice-covered world we see today is an exception ...

FILE - A person walks along the shore of ice covered Lake Michigan, Feb. 13, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) ...

NSIDC's Polar Stereographic Projection was originally designed to be optimal for sea ice applications, though it is now used for many other products. Northern Hemisphere (left) and Southern Hemisphere ...