Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Polar warming is shaping the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we grow, and the stability of our minds and bodies.

When you think about the worlds that might tell you something about life’s beginnings, Titan often rises to the top of the ...

Once, eating in the Arctic meant survival, and it involved living off of dried fish, smoked reindeer, fermented greens and ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

Expect more activity in the Arctic ocean in spring 2026, when the ice melts. But how quickly the region opens up depends on ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar ...

Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences ...

Brave hearts in Grand Junction took the icy plunge at Highline Lake raising $6500 for Special Olympics. See how this first ...

More than 84 million are under winter weather bulletins with several states expected to see lows 10 to 25 degrees below ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

The polar vortex shot into public lexicon sometime around January 2014, after a notable outbreak of icy arctic air that ...