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In honour of World Meteorological Day today, here are some of Earth’s most fascinating extreme weather events.

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A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

The current team, which includes engineers, a mechanic, a doctor and a meteorologist, face a long winter in Antarctica at South Africa’s remote Sanae IV base ...

There are about 10,000 scientists stationed in Antarctica during the summer but, in the harsh winter, that number drops to ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Queen of Cruises Jane McDonald is no stranger to a luxury liner, in fact, she's made a career out of them, but where have ...

These destinations on Earth simulate some of the most stressful parts of space travel, and help astronauts survive in extreme situations. While we might not be able to go to space, a visit to these ...

The place thought to have had the thickest overlying ice was Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land, but a reinterpretation of data ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...