Technical officers look after our meteorological monitoring equipment and make sure it's in good working order. They also take weather observations (readings). The data collected is used in weather ...

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Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

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Cruising is having a major moment —and women over 50 are at the heart of it. As midlife travel gets a long-overdue rebrand, ...

As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...

A small robotic float slipped under the Antarctic ice, vanished from contact for eight months, and then resurfaced with a ...

As polar sea ice continues to shrink, small-scale churning and mixing in the Arctic Ocean are becoming stronger.

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A robotic float, 'Argo', reveals the present state of affairs of the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves in East Antarctica.

Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...