Author: Polar Research Board

Permafrost is a thermal condition -- its formation, persistence and disappearance are highly dependent on climate. General circulation models predi...

Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean remains one of the world's last frontiers. Covering nearly 14 million km^2 (an area approximately 1.4...

Once ice-bound, difficult to access, and largely ignored by the rest of the world, the Arctic is now front and center in the midst of many importan...

The Arctic has been undergoing significant changes in recent years. Average temperatures are rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the worl...

U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast area that is usually ice covered for much of the yea...

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has increased in extent and concentration from the late 1970s, when satellite-based measurements began, until 20...

Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientific research has produced a wide array of important and exciting scientific advances. Spanning oceanography to ...

The Antarctic's unique environment and position on the globe make it a prime location to gain insights into how Earth and the universe operate. Thi...

Recent well documented reductions in the thickness and extent of Arctic sea ice cover, which can be linked to the warming climate, are affecting th...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

Sediments, ice, corals, and trees are just some of the natural storehouses of information that help tell the complicated history of Earth's climate...

Climate change is fundamentally changing ecosystems and their fire conditions, and the 2023 fire season highlighted the urgency of developing and i...

The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees o...

Antarctica hosts some of the harshest and most remote environments on Earth - and it is a region of vital importance for scientific research. The e...