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12/7/2011
A conference scheduled for April 2012 in Montreal draws IPY to an official close. The meeting, whose theme is "From Knowledge to Action," is expected to attract more than 2,000 Arctic and Antarctic researchers, policymakers, educators, and others.
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9/9/2011
The report of an expert panel identifies key questions that will drive scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the coming years, and presents opportunities to be leveraged to sustain and improve the science.
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8/23/2011
NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from climate change.
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8/11/2011
Despite the rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice in recent years, the ice may temporarily stabilize or somewhat expand at times over the next few decades, new research indicates.
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8/1/2011
Ice covers 10 percent of Earth’s surface, but is disappearing rapidly in many places. This website uses still photos, video and animations to document change in the high Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica.
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7/28/2011
The Anaktuvuk River fire, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic, released approximately as much carbon into the atmosphere as the tundra has stored in the previous 50 years, according to a newly released study.
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7/28/2011
During the last prolonged warm spell on Earth, the oceans were about 20 feet higher than they are now. New research suggests that, contrary to prior hypotheses, Greenland's ice may have contributed more, and Antarctica's less, to that rise.
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7/27/2011
Karl A. Erb, head of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, express the regret of the Arctic science community--at the death of Caleb Pungowiyi.
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7/7/2011
An international team, funded partly by the National Science Foundation, has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland 20,000 to 50,000 years ago.
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7/7/2011
NOAA Ship Fairweather departed Kodiak, Alaska on a mission to conduct hydrographic surveys in remote areas of the Arctic where depths have not been measured since before the U.S. bought Alaska in 1867.
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