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

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

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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight around Earth’s polar regions, as the commander shares with Spectrum News what this new adventure means to him. The ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United ...

Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions. Some of the country’s most widely used sea ice data ...

In an early sign of the winter weather that's coming, the dreaded polar vortex is making news yet again. The polar vortex is "ramping up from its summer slumber," said meteorologist Judah Cohen in an ...

Indiana can expect dry temperatures around the state at the beginning of October. Although fall kicked off earlier this week, it'll be a little while before we are affected by a polar vortex. Hoosiers ...

SEATTLE — After a 308-day deployment to one of the most remote regions on Earth, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star has returned home to Seattle, marking the end of its 28th voyage to Antarctica ...

The Sun’s poles are one of the last uncharted frontiers in solar physics. While space-based satellites and ground-based telescopes have provided extraordinary views of the solar surface, atmosphere, ...

At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers cut the first steel for a new icebreaker ship. Over the next three years, about 10,000 tons of the metal will go into the hull before the vessel is carried ...