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Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Australian scientists have begun a new major ice core drilling project in Antarctica. They hope to search through more than a million years of climate history for clues about our planet's past and ...

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

Japanese research vessel Umitaka Maru has returned to Hobart as the Tasmanian Government continues to establish new trade opportunities as part of ...

The Antarctic Treaty System has been long heralded as a model of international cooperation. It has successfully maintained the entire continent as a zone of peace and science. That said, recent ...

Polar bears are among the planet's most iconic symbols of cold climate adaptation. They boast a thick layer of blubber, ...

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BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

Based on the current pledges of countries for limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases, global temperatures are projected to reach 2.7 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels by the end of ...