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
Opening an Icy Eye on the Neutrino Sky
10.01.2003
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
Will Antarctica Melt?
11.01.1998
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
Great Balls o' Bryozoans
08.01.1996
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
The World's Oldest Ice
02.01.1996
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