With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

The Fram2 mission was funded by Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur and adventurer from Malta. Wang flew alongside ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...

When it comes to climate, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The effects of Arctic warming are a ...

It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures is changing the Arctic landscape, threatening ...

The Arctic is at the forefront of the climate crisis, with the central basin of the Arctic Ocean warming three times faster ...

The polar circumnavigation mission consists of 23,000 miles and 12 stops around the globe. The mission is part of a fundraiser for the Classic Lear Jet Foundation. The goal is to raise money for ...

SpaceX's Fram2 captured stunning views of the Earth as the mission's private astronauts became the first to orbit over the ...

This file provides functions and modules that construct shapes from a list of cross sections. In the case of skin() you specify each cross sectional shape yourself, and the number of points can vary.

Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...

T. Stoeck et al., Protistan diversity in the Arctic: A case of paleoclimate shaping modern biodiversity? PLoS One 2, e728 (2007).