News

Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries
Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic is exposed to rising levels, posing a risk ...
The Cool Down on MSN1d
Scientists make stunning discovery hidden along 2,000-mile stretch of ancient Antarctic mountains: 'More dynamic … history than previously recognized'
Novel findings from ​​University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado, Boulder, ...
AeroTime1d
Winter operations: How Arctic Circle airports stay open in extreme conditions
How do Article Circle airports stay open even though it snows 200+ days a year? AeroTime visits Finnish Lapland to find out.
Arctic Sea Ice2d
Snow Melt Onset Over Arctic Sea Ice from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS Brightness Temperatures, Version 3
The gsfc_25n.msk land/coast mask is used instead of the n3blcmsk.hdf mask. This data set includes yearly snow melt onset dates over Arctic sea ice derived from brightness temperatures from the ...
Live Science on MSN2d
Time-Lapse Of Radar Images Shows How The Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses
Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...
The Economist2d
The melting of the Arctic will bring peril—and opportunity
Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...
Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world?
A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in ...
WLRN3d
In photographs, scientists revel in the world they seek to discover
The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a ...