The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) international expedition will commence. Up to ...

The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...

In social media, President Trump is questioning global warming because of a chilly severe winter storm hitting the U_S_ On ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather ...

Gold and silver hit record highs on Monday, driven by a flight to safety after President Trump warned of extra tariffs on some European countries in a dispute over Greenland. Spot gold jumped 1.7% to ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The temperatures are warming up after a morning record-tying low of 22 degrees. The record was 99 years old, set in 1927. Saturday warms even more, closer to 70! before ...

The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached a new record high, surpassing 70,000 for the first time in the deportation agency's 23-year history, according ...