Glaciers are essential for maintaining the planet’s climate balance. Scientists reveal disturbing trend in Earth's polar ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced U.S. presence in two strategic regions. By Raymond Zhong Kelly Brunt wasn ...

This tilted axis is why Earth has seasons, and it creates the planet's three major climactic zones: the polar regions in the Arctic and Antarctic, the middle temperate zones, and the tropical regions.

Humanity's oldest and longest-running climate experiment, the International Polar Year ... greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. The Arctic in particular is also a region of geopolitical ...

The research underscores how future increases in methane emissions could significantly influence ozone recovery, particularly in the polar regions. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth ...

Chandrayaan-3, however, was the first mission to land in a high-latitude polar region of the moon ... signs of microbial life emerged on the earth. In fact, the earth and the moon have had ...

Published in Communications Earth and Environment, a Nature journal, the study highlights the extreme variations in surface and subsurface temperatures over short distances in the Moon’s higher latitu ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...