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3/18/2008
A colder-than-average winter in some regions of the Arctic this year has yielded an increase in the area of new sea ice, while the older sea ice that lasts for several years has continued to decline.
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3/18/2008
University of Washington researchers have used satellite data to detect Arctic conditions that cause mass starvation of hoofed animals depended on by native peoples. Their methods could help fend off mass starvation.
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3/18/2008
Using the latest satellite observations, NASA researchers and others report that the Arctic is still on “thin ice” when it comes to the condition of sea ice cover in the region.
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3/10/2008
John Priscu normally works in Antarctica during its warmest and longest days. He usually shares the continent with scientists from all over the world. This year is different.
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3/10/2008
Read dispatches from NASA-, NOAA-, and NSF-funded researchers at sea about doing science while living daily life in one of the Earth's most extreme environments. So what exactly is the "House of Pain" or the "Oracle of Delta"?
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3/6/2008
Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought.
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3/6/2008
USGS and Russian scientists recently developed a new modeling approach, based entirely on historical observations, to estimate sea-ice thickness.
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3/5/2008
The nation’s largest icebreaker, USCGC Healy, left its home port of Seattle on March 6 to begin six months of scientific deployments in the Arctic studying the Bering Sea ecosystem.
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3/4/2008
For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
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3/3/2008
A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole.
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