Expedition Seeks Record of Earth Climate
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Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth's climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced
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ENVIRONMENT: A four-year study documents Arctic warming, and adventurers say the world needs to take action. BY JOHN MYERS. When Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre saw two giant glaciers on his map of Greenland, he worried how his group would get around them.
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More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles Monday to measure the effects of climate change, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines to study everything from the effect of solar radiation on the polar atmosphere to the exotic marine life swimming beneath the Antarctic ice.
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The White House on Wednesday told 15 federal agencies to better share scientific data about the Earth among themselves and with other nations.    The administration's draft plan for the next 10 years requires the agencies to identify ways they can help create a global system for observing the planet...
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Pen Hadow, who's preparing for a months-long trek across the Arctic, speaks on climate change, how technology has changed the life of an explorer, and the dangers of swimming with bears.
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Scientists know that Earth endures cyclical ice ages, but they don't know why. Perhaps you do. In the Wired Wiki.
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Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that&#39;s
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Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth _ ...Comment
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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The largest polar research programme for 50 years, by thousands of scientists, gets under way this week.
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Scientists and pitchmen press for a more effective name for "global warming.".
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At a remote outpost in northern Greenland, an international team of scientists is attempting to resolve the critical mystery of global warming: how quickly will sea levels rise?
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The effort by scientists from more than 60 countries aims to understand the dynamics of life at the ends of the earth.
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Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.
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The most comprehensive international assessment of Arctic climate change has concluded that Earth&#39;s upper latitudes are experiencing unprecedented increases in temperature
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A laboratory perched on a windswept ridge in the Arctic should reveal vital clues about our changing planet.