Algae skate through Arctic sea ice, thriving in subzero cold and revealing new secrets about survival in extreme polar ...
If you were to slice a chunk of Arctic sea ice and peer at it under a microscope, you probably wouldn’t expect much. Frozen water, trapped sediment, perhaps a few still-living microbes locked in ...
Scientists studying Antarctica have discovered that northerly winds—not westerlies—are driving major ice loss in West ...
Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...
As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape.
If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt.
Cryopreservation, or preserving biological tissue by cooling it to subzero temperatures, may bring to mind works of science ...
According to EurekAlert, the team found glaciers in the Central, Western, and Eastern Himalayas are especially vulnerable.