Environment / Arctic & Antarctic

Welcome to the Hotel Relativity

From Icehotel to the Astronomers Inn, the world's best science-themed hotels and restaurants 04.14.2008

The Robo-Sub That Helps Predict Where the Ocean's Headed

An underwater glider measures parts of the ocean that scientists can't reach. 03.03.2008

Did Life Evolve in Ice?

Funky properties of frozen water may have made life possible. 02.01.2008

If Life Gives You Methane, Make Methane Energy

The global warming risk that's also a great opportunity 01.31.2008

4. Arctic Thaw

Rapidly melting ice in the Far North alarms climatologists and lures nations into competition for newly accessible trade routes and resources. 12.12.2007

After the Thaw

Global warming in the once-icy Arctic sets the stage for a modern-day landgrab. 11.21.2007

Halloween Science: Bacteria of the Living Dead

Chop up their DNA and the buggers still keep comin' back to life. 10.31.2007

The Last Unexplored Place on Earth

Scientists race to discover the secret world buried miles beneath Antarctica. 09.28.2007

Arctic Land Grabs Could Cause Eco-Disaster

After nations carve up the fast-melting region, will there be anything left? 08.30.2007

Sweeping The Ocean Floor

Strange sea creatures caught on film for the first time 06.13.2007

How to Pinpoint a Pinniped

It's easy—stick a big radio transmitter on their heads. 05.04.2007

The Hole Story

Think the ozone hole is on the mend? It's gotten worse. 03.01.2007

Biologists Find Life in Dark Frigid Trough

Biologists Find Life in Dark Frigid Trough 11.22.2005

Think Tank

What we learned in the last 25 years, and what we're likely to see in the next 25 04.28.2005

Wild Ones

Are gangs of orcas feasting on protected seals, sea lions, and otters because we fished their normal food supply out of the oceans? 04.21.2004

The Ice Cap Melteth

02.05.2004

Ask Discover

Ask Discover 11.22.2003

Environment

01.01.2003

Works in Progress

Each year Alaskans wager when a frozen river will thaw, and science is the winner 05.01.2002

The Big Arctic

11.01.2000

Works in Progress

Whither the biggest iceberg in recorded history? 10.01.2000

Antarctica's Hot Spot

Braving hurricane winds and 40-foot waves, scientists struggle to unerstand Antarctic warming. 11.01.1999

What Icebergs?

10.01.1999

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

White Penguin Spotted 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Earth 1997

Antarctic Puzzle 01.01.1998

Meteorite Hunters

Ralph Harvey can ride a Ski-doo as well as anyone, and he looks pretty good in antlers--just the guy to search Antarctica for pieces of other worlds. 05.01.1997

One Very Cold Lake

01.01.1997

The Krill Drill

06.01.1996

Running on Tundra

Each summer a herd of scientists races north, enduring white nights and relentless mosquitoes to study one of the world's harshest ecosystems. 06.01.1996

Birth of a Berg

01.01.1996

Life on a Melting Continent

Every winter an expanse of ice twice the size of the United States forms around Antarctica. Before it disappears in the spring, a vast, unexplored ecosystem comes into being. 08.01.1995



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