The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed as a Solar UV Index or Sun Index.The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the ...

New NASA imaged reveal how vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than ten times since 1986, only 38 years ago. The maps show that the area of land on the Antarctic ...

See rock show from Rigometrics or the Funksgiving show from Model Airplane in Portland on Saturday. Come Friday, you’re going to be recovered from your food coma and will want to leave the house ...

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The main agenda? The precarious future of Antarctica’s ice, arguably our planet’s last untouched wilderness. The experts’ conclusion, published as a press statement, is a somber one: if we don’t act, ...

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An emperor penguin named Gus that landed on WA’s southern coastline from Antarctica. Picture: Supplied “Carol reported the bird had gained 3.5 kgs in her care and with warmer weather on the ...

An avid runner and Strava app user in Toronto released his 10-month-long project this week, transforming a city map into a giant cartoon animation. Like many other runners, cyclists, hikers ...

For 27 days, it travelled over 1,000km (621miles) back and forth under the Dotson Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, scanning the ice above it with an advanced sonar. The result was the very first map ...

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With the warmer Australian summer approaching, Gus needed to be back in the frigid Antarctic waters to regulate his body temperature. "Never in my wildest thoughts would I (have) thought I'd ever have ...