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You’ve saved money to go to that great photo spot, marked your calendar, put in for vacation time, and are already thinking about the photos you want to make. The trouble is, you’ve never been there. Your time will be limited. You want to be able to use it to…

Due to reduced sea ice, polar bears in Baffin Bay are getting thinner, having fewer babies, and spending more time on land than they did in the 1990s, new research shows. The new study in Ecological Applications includes satellite tracking and visual monitoring of polar bears in the 1990s compared with…

Manchester United's latest signing Odion Ighalo has been forced to train away from the club's other players amid fears he may have the coronavirus. The BBC report that the former Chinese Super League striker has been omitted from United's winter training cam…

Greenland shark head floats in a tub of water. More of a spectacle for guests than anything, the ... rest of the shark is fermented and served to guests at this fish house in Northern Iceland. Ariella Simke The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) looks like the result of one too…

Earth View 2020 update hero image Gopal Shah Product Manager, Google Earth Published Feb 11, 2020 Ten years ago, I was flying over San Francisco when this strange but kaleidoscopically beautiful vista opened up outside of my tiny airplane window. When I got home, I fired up Google Earth to…

A huge iceberg just broke off of one of the most fragile glaciers in Antarctica. The chunk of ice, about the size of the Tampa, Florida, cleaved from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Scientists had been keeping an eye on two huge cracks in an ice shelf down…

KEENE, N.H. — Former New Mexico governor and 2016 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson offered his support to Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary in a voicemail obtained by Insider.  "Hey, I w…

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In this file photo, snow covers cars in Paradise, Newfoundland, in this image obtained from social media A "bomb" cyclone with a central pressure of 929 millibars (mb) has formed between Greenland and Iceland, while another deep low pressure area has opened up over the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. A "bomb"…

The US military has been turning more of its attention to the Arctic as a venue for so-called great-power competition with another powerful military — in this case, Russia. The US Navy has played a big role in that shift. The USS Harry S. Truman's presence a…