A new report suggests that hybridization between species may put the future of Arctic populations at risk. Mummified forest found on treeless Arctic island. For his new television series, Bruce Parry starts his Arctic adventure in Greenland, where climate change is radically affecting the Inuit way of life. A review of Arctic Gardens: Voices from an Abundant Land by Dave Harman, Harvard Ayers, and Landon Pennington. A review of The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler (and more). The Diomede Islands are two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line. New data and models show that Greenland's ice cap is on track to hit a point of no return in 2040. Canadian arctic basks under record mildness. A look at life at the North Pole and the South Pole. Penguins and plumbers: Life in the Antarctic at -50C, by people who moved there. Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit (and more). Deception Island in Antarctica is one of the few places in the world where brave sailors can sail directly into the center of a live volcano. Antarctica tourism snowballs, but is it helping or harming "the Last Place on Earth?" The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility is considered the most remote point in the entire world. Can good governance save the Antarctic? The IceCube project has constructed a giant detector in the Antarctic ice to find subatomic particles — it could reveal where cosmic rays come from and their cause (and more). Here's what life is like at an Antarctic outpost (and more and more). The McMurdo Marathon brings together a small field of runners on a course at the bottom of the world.
