But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

Polar regions as climate indicators The aim of the International Polar year is to determine the role that the Arctic and Antarctic play in climate, and in this context, to study the earths ecosystems.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Parts of both the Arctic and Antarctic have experienced historically high temperatures in recent weeks, ...

image: With four more years of satellite imagery data, researchers in the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and their partners have now released the most detailed polar region ...

Powerful winds are ripping through the Arctic, breaking up critical sea ice that once acted as a shield against disturbance ...

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As ScienceDirect shared, the researchers published their study in the journal Environmental Research. They took samples from three Spitsbergen glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago, located in the ...

Due to factors connected with modern technological developments and with the increasing global demand for new sources of raw materials, there is today a growing interest in the possibilities for ...

Around the world and particularly across much of the United States, a question has emerged: What happened to winter? In Japan, record low snowfall has forced ski resorts to close prematurely. In ...