A lonely webcam at an Antarctic station recently captured images of the first sunrise to light the sky in two months, marking the end of winter darkness in its neighborhood of East Antarctica. The sun ...

(CNN) — A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog – and ...

Researchers stationed in Antarctica have been left mesmerized by the skies brought on by the aftereffects of a volcanic eruption. The light-scattering impacts of the lingering aerosols have created ...

The deadliest hurricane ever to hit America made landfall over Galveston, Texas, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, on September 8th 1900. Terrified inhabitants watched a 4.5-metre-high wall of ...

When temperatures in Antarctica soared to 38 degrees Celsius above normal -- around 70 Fahrenheit -- in March, a teetering ice shelf the size of Los Angeles collapsed. Scientists don't know what role ...

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Streams of moisture in the sky, known as atmospheric rivers, can trigger the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves 1. When an atmospheric river hits the Antarctic Peninsula’s mountains, it releases ...