21-12-20 Its the most advanced polar ship ever to set sail. Named after Sir David Attenborough, it took just four years to build. Now its getting ready for its first voyage to Antarctica. 这是有史以来出海启航的极地船中最先进的一艘。它以大卫爱登堡爵士命名，只...

19-06-21 The establishment of a China-Russia joint laboratory on polar technology and equipment has recently been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University confirmed Thursday. 哈尔滨工程大学周四确认，中-俄极地技术与装...

18-02-13 A Chinese-made robot used for ice cap exploration in the Antarctic has taken part in an excavation on the Amery Ice Shelf. 一辆中国制造的南极冰盖探测机器人已在埃默里冰架上进行挖掘任务。 Developed by Shenyang Institute of Automation with the Chinese...

15-09-28 You might expect that little happens in the Arctic Ocean during the cold and dark winter. But that just isn't so, according to researchers who have sampled the activities of many different species during three consecutive winters in Kongsfjorden, Sv...

15-06-24 Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan...

14-12-30 One day, up in the frozen north a polar bear and his son were out for a stroll. Daddy bear sat on a lump of ice to admire the view and sent his son off to play. Two minutes later Junior came back to dad and says, Can I ask you a question dad? Sure,...

13-03-21 One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world -- and the best studied -- is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on over 10 years' data the study, published in the British Ecolog...

13-02-24 A new climate model predicts an increase in snowfall for Earth's polar regions and highest altitudes, but an overall drop in snowfall for the globe, as carbon dioxide levels rise over the next century. The decline in snowfall could spell trouble for...

12-02-08 Americans' knowledge of facts about the polar regions of the globe has increased since 2006, but this increase in knowledge has not translated into more concern about changing polar environments, according to new research from the Carsey Institute a...

11-07-11 An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of（在附近） present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of the last ice age -- 20,000 to 50...