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Journey beneath the ice to discover hidden worlds and clues to life beyond Earth.
As polar oceans warm and sea ice disappears, is the balance of our entire planet at risk?
Venture into Earth’s most extreme ice fields to unlock the hidden history of our climate.
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Aaron Glantz and Sophie Hills discuss AI companies' efforts to influence the midterms.
October 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
News Wrap: AI giant Anthropic preparing for initial public offering
Candidates enter final week of campaigning with control of Congress at stake
Netanyahu faces Israeli voters in first election since Oct. 7 and Gaza war
Lula prevails in Brazil but Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede
How do you study a wetland when it isn't wet? Jordon and Rae enter a very dry Everglades.
Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack ads
Student-led movement ousts Serbia's right-wing ruler in historic election
Glaciologist Alun Hubbard stands at the edge of a perilous moulin on the Greenland ice sheet.
Go behind the scenes of the epic three-year journey to film “Ages of Ice.”
At -40°, your eyelashes freeze with every blink. So why do these scientists keep coming back?
Five strangers, 220-pound sleds, 30 days on Greenland's ice, all to map what lies beneath.
Is Greenland's ice leaking methane? Glaciologist Alun Hubbard descends into a moulin to find out.
Pumping seawater onto frozen ocean, Real Ice and Inuit guides test whether sea ice can grow thicker.
Could life beyond Earth hide in ice? Dr. Birgit Sattler finds tardigrades thriving inside a glacier.
No sunlight, no soil to eat. In Antarctica, Dr. Ry Holland finds microbes surviving on thin air.