Pupil outcome: I can explain why different animals live in different habitats. Key learning points: - A habitat is where a group of plants and animals live. - A habitat provides the things an animal or plant needs to survive. - Most...

Pupil outcome: I can understand how Earth's polar ice caps are changing. Key learning points: - By analysing how the northern polar ice caps have changed, predictions can be made - By analysing how the southern polar ice caps have...

The oceans are very important in climate change because they take in almost 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and a lot of carbon dioxide. This makes the oceans warmer and more acidic, which has led to record-low sea ice,...

From Mexico all the way up to Alaska, hundreds of gray whales have been washing up ashore. The deaths peaked in 2019, and the numbers were so significant that it led scientists to call it an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) which kicked...

For decades, Antarctic sea ice trends seemed to defy climate change, until…they didn’t. In just two years, Antarctica lost as much sea ice as the Arctic lost in three decades. Statistics say that the record low sea ice in 2023 was a 1 in...

At the Earth's poles, wildlife survives both under the sea, and on the icy surface above. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. During the winter, both the Arctic and Southern Oceans are covered in a thick layer of ice. The two frozen...

In 1998 an open scientific competition led to the development of Cryosat, a satellite designed to provide accurate information about the Earth s changing polar ice sheets and sea ice.

Today, we delve into a crucial aspect of climate change - the melting of ice caps and how they impact sea levels.

In this hands-on science experiment, we simulate how melting land ice (ice on pebbles) and sea ice (ice in water)...

Join principal investigator Drew Laura and his team as they embark on an extraordinary journey to study the resilience of Antarctic sea floor organisms amidst climate-related changes.

Join principal investigator Drew Laura and his team as they embark on an extraordinary journey to study the resilience of Antarctic sea floor organisms amidst climate-related changes.

The video discusses the importance of monitoring polar ice decline and introduces the upcoming launch of the Cryosat satellite by the European Space Agency. Cryosat will use radar technology to precisely map changes in the thickness of...

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Ice is an essential component of the ecosystem of the Bering Sea region. For example, sea ice cover can dramatically affect the levels of phytoplankton which has enormous effects on the entire food web. In this public radio story we hear...

You might call them the "poster children" of Antarctica. Penguins have long topped the charts as the iconic animal of the frozen continent. But now, a new study indicates melting sea ice, caused by climate change, may soon wreak havoc on...

You might call them the ""poster children"" of Antarctica. Penguins have long topped the charts as the iconic animal of the frozen continent. But now, a new National Science Foundation study indicates melting sea ice, caused by climate...

Earth's poles have been experiencing major heat waves simultaneously, alarming climate scientists.

People don't usually think of mathematics as an occupation that requires survival skills, but they might change their minds if they saw Kenneth Golden and his daring research team in action! The mathematician has spent the past 40 years...

A conversation with Bron Nelson, a computer programmer with the Data Analysis and Visualization Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Dimitris Menemenlis, a research scientist working with the Estimation of the...

With 17 trips (and counting) to Earth's polar regions spanning his mathematical career, mathematician Ken Golden of the University of Utah has been studying sea ice structure and behavior for over 20 years.



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In this week’s episode of NSF Science Now, we explore Arctic walrus habitats, Cave2, pandas and, finally, algae and biofuels.

In this week's episode of NSF Science Now we explore Arctic walrus habitats, Cave2, Pandas and finally Algae and biofuels.

NSF Science Now highlights some of the latest in NSF science & engineering research and discoveries.

Our planet is a beautiful and awesome place. In a new video, join NASA scientists on a 40-minute visual tour of Earth from space, presented at the IMAX Theater at National Air and Space Museum in...

Scientists successfully test an unmanned underwater vehicle beneath Antarctic sea ice. The AUV produced high-resolution 3-D maps of previously inaccessible sea-ice floes.