News from the polar regions during June included reconstructions of past climates and carbon dioxide levels, changes in the Greenland ice sheet, and impacts of climate change on Arctic people and mammals. Missed these stories the first time around? Read on!
Researchers analyzing plankton shells have reconstructed carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years. […]

Living on this planet at a time of great changes, the general public should have a fundamental understanding of earth science concepts, according to specialists from many fields who contributed to the report Earth Science Literacy Principles: The Big Ideas and Supporting Concepts of Earth Science.
A product of the Earth Science Literacy Initiative (ESLI), which […]

One of the trading routes that collectively made up the famed Silk Road of ancient times is under threat from melting glaciers in nearby mountains. The Hexi corridor in Gansu province, China, now experiencing regional floods, will not be the only ancient site endangered by glaciers according to researchers into global warming.
According to an […]

Register for a free, real-time event about science being conducted in Greenland on July 8, 2009!
This special seminar is part of the Greenland Education Tour 09′, a group of educators and students from Greenland, Denmark and the United States, touring Greenland to learn more about the science being conducted in this unique polar region. The […]

More than 34 million years ago, glaciers were creating the Gamburtsev mountains in Antarctica as well as the ice sheet that now covers the continent.
Radar images suggest to an international team that glaciers expanded, retracted, and flowed downstream, creating high altitude hollows, or cirques, hanging valleys, and the main valley through the mountain range, […]