The First Satellite Images of Polar Ice Coverage April 26, 2013 | BBC BBC.com has an article about the first satellite maps of the Arctic and Antarctic, produced... Polar Bears Swimming Long Distances May 23, 2012 | USGS "Polar bears spend much of their lives in and around water, and they are well... Living on a Polar Yacht in the Arctic February 13, 2013 | CNN The Brossier Family has spent the past eight winters living on a yacht in the... Drilling into Lakes Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice December 25, 2012 | National Geographic Three teams of scientists from Russia, Britain and the United States are drilling through Antarctic... Using the Yeti Robot in Polar Field Work March 7, 2013 | National Science Foundation "A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic,... Salty Soils and Atmospheric Moisture March 13, 2012 | Oregon State University "The frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are a cold, polar desert, yet the sandy... ESA: Arctic Fresh Water Dome Could Spill into the Atlantic January 23, 2012 | European Space Agency "ESA satellites show that a large dome of fresh water has been building up in... Water Ice on Mercury? December 2, 2012 | NASA "New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury... |