Iceland is a country in a constant state of transformation, reshaped by ongoing volcanic eruptions, erosion, and shifting ice ...
The sport is no stunt, as swimmer Mackenzie Koeck and her support crew learned in the yearlong runup of preparation.
Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...
We are all familiar, at least to some degree, with the looming climate crisis. News outlets brim with panicked headlines ...
A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...
The system makes it possible to predict parameters of ice concentration, thickness, drift and compaction, meteorological and oceanographic conditions, and satellite imagery ...
In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...
We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. If ...
In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.
Microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaska's permafrost are thawing as temperatures rise, releasing CO2 and posing new ...
Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far less probable. However, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere ...