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Seven people pose for a photo on an icy field with a mountain in the background on a sunny day. The man in the middle gives a thumbs-up.
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These South Pole Seismometers Will Detect Vibrations 1.5 Miles Under the Ice

by Grace van Deelen 23 February 202623 February 2026

The instruments will freeze into Antarctica’s ice sheet, where they will collect detailed, global-scale seismic data.

Map from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

300 Million Years of Polar Wander: Slowly but Surely

by Thorsten W. Becker 16 April 202516 April 2025

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect to its rotation axis.

An Arctic seascape shows fragments of ice floating in the ocean under a partly cloudy sky.
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Another Hot Arctic Year Indicates a New Climate Regime

by Grace van Deelen 10 December 202425 September 2025

NOAA’s annual Arctic Report Card illustrates a warmer, wetter, and increasingly wonky Arctic climate.

Design by Beth Bagley; illustrations by Mary Heinrichs
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What’s Next for Science? Look in the Mirror

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 15 November 202415 November 2024

AGU24 gives us an opportunity to reflect on how science can grow in breadth and depth and how scientific communities can help define the future.

Sea ice as seen from the air
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Heat Moves More Freely Through Warmer Sea Ice Than Scientists Thought

by Nathaniel Scharping 1 October 20241 October 2024

Flowing brines transport heat more effectively than old models showed, potentially changing climate simulations.

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地心轴向偶极子假说足矣!

by Daniel Pastor-Galán 25 September 202425 September 2024

在中国的一项详尽的研究发现在新元古代早期没有援引极端真正极移或异常地磁场的必要。

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Scientists Captured the First Glimpse of a Rare Polar Aurora

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 8 August 20248 August 2024

After a decade-long search, scientists captured a type of elusive aurora on camera.

A close-up of the face of a green-eyed woman wearing a parka and a gray scarf over her lower face; snow appears on the woman’s clothing and her eyelashes.
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Britney Schmidt: Following the Ice

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 25 July 202425 July 2024

An Earth and planetary scientist is most at home in cold places that mimic the worlds of the outer solar system.

Diagram and graphs from the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

GAD is Enough!

by Daniel Pastor-Galán 10 May 202425 September 2024

An exhaustive study in China finds no need to invoke extreme true polar wander nor anomalous geomagnetic fields in the early Neoproterozoic.

A black and white satellite image shows sea ice, with cracks appearing bright white, beside snow-covered landfast ice (gray) and land (dark).
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Monitoring Polar Ice Change in the Twilight Zone

by Ted Scambos, Christopher Shuman, Mark Fahnestock, Tasha Snow and Christopher Crawford 20 February 202426 February 2026

Landsat’s new extended data collection program is mapping Arctic and Antarctic regions year-round, even in polar twilight.

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