A private space mission operated by SpaceX will become the first crewed voyage designed specifically to explore Earth’s polar regions. The mission — called Fram2 after the ship that helped ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...

It allowed the general public to grasp the beauty and unforgiving nature of the diverse polar regions of Earth, provided a sense of how changes in these regions will affect all of us, and — mayb ...

Imagine it as a giant, icy whirlpool far above the Earth, keeping frigid ... pressure between warmer and colder regions. This stability helps keep the polar vortex — and all its bitterly cold ...

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...