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When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike ...
Fly above the Atacama Desert, showcasing one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth. Located in northern Chile, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert, shaped by wind, time, ...
A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored ...
A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...
Hiking amid Andean peaks, ancient ruins—and no crowds—on this 19,000-mile stone path from Colombia to Argentina. Trekkers and pack llamas make their way along the Qhapaq Ñan in Peru. One stretch of ...