Record-setting scientist calls South Pole an ‘absolutely amazing place’
Astrophysicist Robert Schwarz has spent more winters at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station than anyone else in history The idea... read more →
October 16, 2018
Taller Plants in Warming Arctic Accelerate Climate Change
The tundra is a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America where the subsoil is permanently... read more →
October 16, 2018
Maersk launches first container ship through Arctic route in alarming sign of global warming
Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, is about to launch the first ever container ship on an Arctic route... read more →
October 3, 2018
Not even Antarctica is safe from the plastic pollution in our oceans
Given Antarctica's extreme location on the bottom of the Earth, scientists long believed the continent was free from the plastic... read more →
September 29, 2018
A Golden Age for Earth Observation
By Sara Aparicio ( European Space Agency-ESA ) We are in the edge of an exciting new era for Earth observation (a.k.a.monitoring... read more →
September 24, 2018
The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem
On Monday 2 July, the CryoSat-2 spacecraft was orbiting as usual, just over 700 kilometres above Earth’s surface. But that... read more →
September 6, 2018
Invasive Species Are Riding on Plastic Across the Oceans
We know plastics are as plentiful in parts of the open ocean as they are in our everyday lives. But, until recently,... read more →
September 1, 2018
New Clues to Origins of Mysterious Atmospheric Waves in Antarctica
Two years after a CIRES and CU Boulder team discovered a previously unknown class of waves rippling continuously through the upper Antarctic... read more →
September 1, 2018
Norwegian billionaire has ordered a high-tech yacht named R.E.V. – Research Expedition Vessel
Kjell Inge Røkke, majority stakeholder in the Norwegian conglomerate Aker ASA, has decided to invest a fraction of his $2.7... read more →
August 26, 2018