Polar warming is fueling rising disease burdens, worsening food insecurity, increasing mental health strain, and amplifying ...

Results were published on March 29 in Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. Researchers used data from previous publications aiming to answer the question of why the Arctic sea ice is responding much more ...

Arctic Circle Countries: The Arctic Circle is one of the five major imaginary lines on Earth, located at about 66.5° north latitude. It marks the boundary where the sun can stay visible for 24 hours ...

As the Defense Department prepares to release its new Arctic strategy, Pentagon planners should expand their perspective to the opposite pole: Antarctica, whose resources, geostrategic location, and ...

Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main ...

Polar amplification' is a term that describes the more rapid rise in temperature in the Arctic and Antarctic than other ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

While most Quad-Citians prepare for the holidays in the United States, others are going far, far from the North Pole. Sarah Nuernberger, 15, will spend Christmas in Antarctica, in the Antarctic Circle ...

Panaji: The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) will mark a milestone this Dec, celebrating 25 years of ...