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By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.

As the LA wildfire is on track to be the most devastating blaze ever in Southern California , a timely new study identifies ...

Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half of December and is continuing in the first few days ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation ...

Invasive plant species cost the global economy billions of dollars. In Kenya, water hyacinth may have finally met its match.

Melt events on both sides of the Antarctic Peninsula and along the Dronning Maud coastal ice shelves between December 15 and ...

More than a billion people are set to tune in to watch the Times Square ball drop tonight. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, has sailed more than 10,000 nautical miles since it departed for China's 41st Antarctic expedition on November 1, completing one third of the ...

“Our hope,” Byrd noted, “is that now we have the entire material to make a detailed map of all of Antarctica.” That said, Operation Highjump came to a rather abrupt end in February 1947. Though many U ...

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