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Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all ...

A decade-long study led by Penguin Watch1, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, has uncovered a record ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

A severe winter storm that brought crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. in late January 2026 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) began icebreaking operations in the Southern Ocean in support of Operation ...

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A polar bear that received media attention after she and her brother were abandoned by their mother is now living at the Reid Park Zoo. Snow arrived in Tucson Thursday night after spending the ...

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