Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, inspired by biomolecules found in cold-tolerant organisms, are developing novel materials ...
A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...
Overview: A Landmark Year for Biodiversity The 12-month period from February 2025 to February 2026 was one of the most consequential in IUCN’s history. Against a backdrop of rapidly accelerating ...
The newly described archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile carries the smallest known genome among Archaea and blurs life’s limits.
Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...
New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.
Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 degrees on a sunny February day. As Matt ...
From discovering a "garden of Eden" at the bottom of the ocean to facing the consequences of human selfishness, a marine biologist gives the Money blog an exclusive insight into the highs and lows of ...
Data shows that it has been the coldest winter in more than a decade for much of the East. The West, on the other hand, experienced widespread record warmth, considering average temperatures since ...
Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the world’s largest desert. Defined by extreme dryness rather than heat, this frozen continent stretches across 14 million square kilometres of ice.