In addition to its tremendous value as a spectacular haven for wildlife, the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is now the focus of major debate about oil and gas...

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) was created in 1988 with the goal of facilitating discussion of important arctic research initiatives, and also producing science reports with research community...

Explore this virtual museum exhibit on Arctic cultures from the Smithsonian Institution. Lessons for every discipline including anthropology, archeology, biology. Downloadable publications include the center's...

This page discusses the rubble pile model of asteroids. In it the author maintains that this model provides a better match to observational constraints and new results from numerical impact simulations than other...

This working paper, created by Denny A. Ellerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores the consequences of cap-and-trade policies, where the total air pollutant emissions of a whole set of polluters are...