Many rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle—including the Lena in Siberia and the Mackenzie River in ...

The island had only been marked as a vague “danger zone” before scientists aboard an icebreaker got close enough to map it.

Researchers recently discovered that a Antarctic “danger zone” was actually an island — and have now mapped it for the first ...

For the first time, AWI researchers have performed a detailed calculation of the amount of carbon stored in permafrost in Arctic river deltas. In a new study in the journal Nature Communications, they ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Alfred Wegener was the first to offer evidence that our continents were once one great land mass. WE really are one world, according to the findings of Alfred Wegener, a guy who really knew his ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American March 1929 the German meteorologists Alfred ...