Kenneth R Rosen offers a timely warning of climate change and melting ice paving the way to military-led land-grabs for ...

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So the magnetic north pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia. This continued in the year just passed, and the newest ...

Extreme weather events have become significantly more common in the Arctic over recent decades, posing a threat to vital polar ecosystems, according to new research by an international team of ...

Design refinements boost performance of self-aligning ball bushing while maintaining their error-correcting nature.

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

His comments followed warnings by Trump on Sunday of possible fresh action against other nations. He specifically threatened ...

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The Snow Cruiser was a massive, ill-fated exploration vehicle sent to the South Pole in 1939. Designed to traverse 5,000 miles of icy landscape while housing and supporting a crew of five, the ...

Many chronic pain patients cite the weather as a driver of their suffering, and climate change is making the torment more ...