Mars is an arid place, and aside from a tiny amount of water vapour in the atmosphere, all water exists…
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We can thank NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto's complexity. On July 14th, 2015, the…
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As global warming ramps up, expect to see Greenland in the news a lot. That's because its ice sheet is…
There are a handful of major science institutions around the world that keep track of the Earth's temperature. They all…
It's cold right now. Okay, fine, here on Vancouver Island, it's actually pretty warm. But for the rest of Canada…
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If climate change models are correct, humanity is working itself—and dragging the rest of life on Earth with it—into a…
For several months, scientists have been keeping an eye on a piece of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, waiting for…