First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales in Canada's Churchill River Estuary
In the summer of 2020, researchers from the University of Manitoba set up a time-lapse camera overlooking the Churchill River ...
Arctic ice approaches historic low, impacting habitat for polar bears
At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...
Here's when Polar Cub ice cream in Readington is opening this season
From a simple stand surrounded by a parking lot, Polar Cub offers 14 flavors of hard ice cream, and five flavors at a time of ...
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Waiting for summer for an outdoor dip? A Chagrin Falls woman is not
Claire Hilbers, 46, of Chagrin Falls does regular polar plunges and competed in the sixth International Ice Swimming ...
A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...
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Testing photovoltaic modules in Antarctica’s summer
The Turkish Antarctic Expedition placed four different PV module types - monocrystalline, polycrystalline, flexible and ...
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander is on deck to deliver NASA payload to the moon
NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin's Blue Moon cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon as early as this summer.
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I Camped at the 'Edge of the World' in Greenland—Here's What It Was Like
On a journey through a remote part of Greenland, travel journalist Chloe Berge discovers a landscape at once fragile and ...
Map shows return of cold weather this week amid polar vortex collapse warning
A polar vortex collapse could bring cold weather to the UK later this month, the Met Office has warned. The weather ...
The stunning power of whale pee
Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...
Herbie Hancock: 'YouTube rabbit holes delayed album by 15 years'
Discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd at the start of the 60s, Hancock signed to Blue Note Records, and wrote jazz standards ...