This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...
The heavy rain dramatically altered the desert’s scenery, turning barren stretches into shimmering bodies of water. Read more ...
As dusk fell on the edge of Nouakchott, Kayo the husky left a trail of paw prints in the warm Sahara sand, an incongruous yet ...
A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, one of the driest places on ...
Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s ...
The news about climate change is always bad, right? Not if you live in some parts of the world. Though national leaders can’t ...
studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team of wolf researchers and a BBC film crew to spend three months in a ...
As Greenland melts, more freshwater is streaming into the oceans. Discharge from Arctic rivers, like the Lena, in Russia, is ...
The common raven (Corvus corax) is the type species of the genus Corvus and is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It ...
The Sahara is the world's largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles. Satellite images from September showed huge swaths of it carpeted in green as storms pushed further ...
A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 mission ...