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This handout photo taken on April 13, 2023, and released on October 6, 2026, shows Francis Halzen, UW–Madison Vilas Research Professor, speaking about the UW IceCube Neutrino Observatory Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Bryce RICHTER/University of Wisconsin/AFP)
October 6, 2026, 4:24 pm
Belgian-born physicist wins Nobel prize for work on neutrino ‘ghost particles’
Francis Halzen honored for building Antarctic lab to study tiny, mysterious cosmic particles with no electrical charge and extraordinarily small mass
By KOSTYA MANENKOV, ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN and STEFANIE DAZIO
A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord near Nuuk in southwestern Greenland, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
March 19, 2022, 5:00 am
‘Not a good sign’: Antarctica, Arctic simultaneously 70 and 50 degrees above normal
‘They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time,’ says a scientist as the two regions both experience freakish extreme heat
By Seth Borenstein
The stern of the Endurance (Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
March 9, 2022, 1:56 pm
Shipwreck of Shackleton’s Endurance, lost in 1915, discovered off Antarctica coast
Famed explorer’s vessel became ensnared in sea ice for over 10 months before being crushed and sinking; miraculously, all the crew survived
By Griffin SHEA
Picture taken in January 2019 at Chile's Antarctic base President Eduardo Frei, in Antarctica, showing a Chilean Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane as the one that disappeared in the sea between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica on December 9, 2019 with 38 people aboard. (Photo by Javier TORRES / AFP)
December 15, 2019, 11:20 am
Israeli military helped find remains of crashed Chilean plane near Antarctica
IDF’s visual intelligence unit formed a team of experts that interpreted aerial images of the Pacific and pinpointed area where C-130 Hercules vanished with 38 on board last week
By Michael Bachner and AP
Illustrative: A Chilean Air Force C-130 aircraft at King George Island, Antarctica, November 24, 2007, rescues tourists from 14 nations after the MS Explorer struck an iceberg and sank (AP Photo/Ivan Alvarado, POOL)
December 10, 2019, 6:39 am
Chile military plane with 38 on board goes missing on way to Antarctica
C-130 Hercules carrying 17 crew and 21 passengers, including three civilians, loses contact halfway to its destination
By AP
In this file photo taken on May 19, 2018, workers fix mooring line of the floating power unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov as it is towed to Atomflot moorage of the Russian northern port city of Murmansk.(Alexander NEMENOV/AFP)
August 24, 2019, 6:07 pm
‘Chernobyl on ice’? Defiant Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctics
Environmental groups warn of dangers of unprecedented project, dubbing it a potential ‘nuclear Titanic’; explosion at test site raises further concerns
By Andrea PALASCIANO
Colin O'Brady, of Portland, Oregon, speaks on the phone in Antarctica on December 26, 2018. (Colin O'Brady via AP)
December 27, 2018, 4:26 pm
US man becomes first solo traveler to traverse Antarctica unaided
‘I did it!’ says Colin O’Brady after 54-day trek across 1,500 kilometers in the frozen continent
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Polar Bears numbers have dwindled as polar ice cap shrinks due to global warming (public domain, NPS Climate Change Response)
December 1, 2018, 6:33 am
Climate change is more extensive and worse than once thought
Scientists say wildfires, droughts, downpours and hurricanes are becoming more widespread due to global warming
By AP
Taxis in a flooded parking lot in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP/Charles Sykes)
August 28, 2015, 8:38 pm
Rising sea levels are unavoidable, NASA warns
Scientists say melting ice caps will have ‘profound impacts’ on over 150 million people in next 100-200 years
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passing through Egypt's Suez Canal in February 2011. (AP, File)
September 22, 2012, 6:00 pm
Iran’s navy aims to expand presence to Antarctica, US coast
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says move will enable the Islamic Republic to plant its flag anywhere on the globe
Children make snowballs in the Old City of Jerusalem. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
February 19, 2012, 10:19 am
Snow news day
Israel is underwhelmed by what it feels is a snow job by Martin Dempsey, and Jerusalemites are underwhelmed by the lack of actual snow
By Joshua Davidovich
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