In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

The U.S. military unearthed data about rising sea levels in the early 1950s — and has been closely watching this threat to ...

“It is like a book. Each page is a story about the history of nature.” Across nine million square miles at the top of the planet, climate change is writing a new chapter. Arctic permafrost isn ...

Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...