Polar sea ice has reached record, and near-record, lows for this time of year, pushing the pace of global warming and alarming scientists. The just declared 2025 Arctic sea ice extent winter ...

February 2022 was also characterized by an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex—a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above the Arctic that is prominent ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...

SpaceX's mission to launch the first astronauts into polar orbit is quickly approaching. Named for the Norwegian seafaring ship Fram, which completed expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic ...

It describes it as "a reversal of winds, the stratosphere polar vortex, high up in the stratosphere". It adds: "These winds are currently weakening rapidly. An SSW can result in a large area of ...

Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) is responsible for advancing Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic, strengthening Canadian leadership in polar science and technology, and promoting the development and ...