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With the Earth warming at a record rate, the list of locales that could reliably host a Winter Games will shrink in the ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

As increased industrial activity puts fragile deep-sea ecosystems at risk, one artist is raising awareness about imperiled ...

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

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It's a shallow lake that looks more like the surface of the Moon! Dan Smith takes us out west (and barely north of the border ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

Photos show brave cold water swimmers breaking the ice of a frozen reservoir with a hammerer - to go for a dip.