Australia’s Antarctic exploration pioneer took his polar pyjamas and wore them in the outback Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Douglas Mawson is remembered as Australia’s ...

Brian May gifted Queen fans this week by unearthing the band’s unreleased Christmas song “Not for Sale (Polar Bear).” The guitarist shared the track during the year-end episode of his Planet Rock ...

Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen on the set of the Dutch TV show TopPop on 22nd November 1974. (Photo by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns) Queen have released a ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

A new study suggests polar bears may be genetically adapting to survive a rapidly warming Arctic—in what researchers describe as a “glimmer of hope” for the endangered species. Researchers at the ...

Global competition in the Arctic is raising hopes of a revival in the town of Churchill. We went to meet the people, and the bears, there. By Norimitsu Onishi We were standing before the gate to a ...

Boston has seen just one day so far this month where the average temperature was above the seasonal norm, daring me to ask — are you over the cold yet? Astronomical winter hasn’t even arrived (that ...

Celebrity pass-out artist Whoopi Goldberg has once again collapsed at The View table — and even dedicated her latest crash toward the Hot Topics surface to Entertainment Weekly. During an apparently ...

Nearly all of New England has seen its share of frigid cold days and record mountain snow so far this November — and looking ahead, we’re about to get hit with another blast of Arctic air from a ...

High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather ...

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