Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms such as plants and algae ... a ship wedged into an ice floe, through the polar night, to study ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...

A plant is growing here too ... Scientists are worried about how fast climate change is melting the polar ice caps. From 1992 to 2022, the planet's frozen poles lost 7,560 billion tonnes in ...

The uppermost layer of the soil had perfectly preserved fossil plants that confirmed the ... some million years into the future, the polar ice caps will drastically melt and result in elevated ...