Five well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems, ...

A team of international scientists is urging caution against five of the most-discussed polar geoengineering ideas, stating ...

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Researchers monitor the activities of polar bears in the Arctic. For safety, one person oversees field researchers from the vessel. [KOREA POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE] Scientists in the Arctic and ...

A private space mission operated by SpaceX will become the first crewed voyage designed specifically to explore Earth’s polar regions. The mission — called Fram2 after the ship that helped explorers ...

Marc Macias-Fauria is a professor of physical geography at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, ...

Proposals to artificially cool the world’s polar regions — to stem the impact of global warming — are both expensive, ...