What’s round and red and grows at the South Pole? A tomato! It’s true. At the very bottom of the world, scientists working at the United States South Pole Station manage a greenhouse that grows fresh ...

The South Pole Food Growth Chamber at full bloom. The hydroponic greenhouse was built during the winter of 2004, and it went into full operation the next year. It’s a model for how colonies on other ...

A spacecraft approaches the lunar pole, spits out a pod from which sprout several tubular arms it uses to bury itself in the soil, where it begins growing plants in preparation for man's return to the ...

At the University of Arizona, Jenn Frymark helped develop a greenhouse for extreme weather and then spent six months at the South Pole growing food for scientific researchers. Now she grows 10 million ...

BOULDER, Colorado, September 9, 2011 (ENS) – A three-year series of pole-to-pole research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse ...

DENVER – A plane outfitted to measure greenhouse gases has taken off from Colorado on the first leg of a 24-day mission that will take it back and forth across the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to the ...