News from the polar regions in March included exploring new landscapes with the help of technology, new marine species, and new ecosystem discoveries. Missed these stories the first time? Read on!
The official International Polar Year ends this month, but that doesn’t mean the end of polar science research and news. Many IPY-funded projects are now […]

Benjamin Leigh Smith, an Arctic explorer in the late 1800’s, was leading his crew back home to England when his ship hit ice and started to sink. With winter approaching, the passage they were traveling through became impassable, so the crew had to set up camp and wait out the long winter before venturing […]

As the Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer, the food chain is feeling the effects — from bottom to top– according to research described in a press release from the National Science Foundation.
Over the past 50 years, winter temperatures on the peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, have risen five times faster than the global average […]

Climate modelers believe there is a “better than 90 percent chance” that the sea-level rise along the northeastern coast of the United States will exceed the global average by the year 2100. If so, the most populous states and cities and the centers of economy, politics, culture and education would be at risk for flooding, […]

In their first meeting since 1981, nations that are home to polar bears met on March 17-19 in Tromsoe, Norway, to write an action plan to ensure the mammals’ future. The five nations — Norway, Russia, Canada, the United States, and Denmark/Greenland — agreed in 1973 to protect polar bears.  
In 1973, the greatest known danger to […]