Ice buildup on powerlines and electric towers brought the northern US and southern Canada to a standstill during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, leaving many in the cold and dark for days and even weeks.

The hole in the ozone layer — the portion of the stratosphere that protects our planet from the sun’s ultraviolet rays — is continuing to decrease.

As physical links between the ground and the sky, plants play an important role in shaping Earth’s weather and climate.

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars.

A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created.

An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as the climate warms.

For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature.

The Guam rail, also known as the ko’ko’, has all the architectural grace of a wood-paneled Buick station wagon. 

Narwhals are changing their migration patterns in response to pressure from changing Arctic climates, a new UBC report has found.

Higher exposure to a certain type of traffic-related air pollution called particulate matter may be linked to an increased risk of dementia, according to a meta-analysis published in the October 26, 2022, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.