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The remote Danger Islands off the coast of Antarctica are home to a previously undiscovered supercolony of more than 1.5 million Adélie Penguins, and thanks to a satellite and some drone footage, researchers now know […]

Boston is bearing the brunt of its second major nor’easter in two months, and it’s a beast of a storm.  The city experienced its third-highest storm tide on record on Friday morning at 14.67 feet. […]

In a few years time the Droids from Star Wars are going to seem like relics. Today’s robots might be better suited for sewing clothes and building cars, but tomorrow’s could be as indispensable and […]

There are plenty of terms meteorologists use to describe storm systems. From “atmospheric river” to “jet streak,” meteorologists love to label weather phenomena in colorful and sometimes goofy ways. (Here’s looking at you, “vorticity lobe.”) […]

Scituate, Massachusetts has been slammed by floodwaters from a nor’easter raking the East Coast on Friday.Image: Scott Eisen/Getty Images By Marcus Gilmer2018-03-02 18:33:06 UTC As a powerful nor’easter slams the Atlantic Coast, flooding records in […]

Image: ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/GettyImages By Andrew Freedman2018-03-02 17:18:06 UTC Damaging winds associated with the rapidly intensifying nor’easter along the east coast of the U.S. virtually shut down Washington, D.C., on Friday, with the federal government and […]

With a giant nor’easter slamming into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, forecasters are using warnings with dire language to inform coastal residents of Massachusetts that this storm will not be an ordinary event.  In fact, record […]

A strange alien world lies beneath the Antarctic Ocean. In the deepest dive ever conducted in this region, the filmmakers of ‘Blue Planet II‘ uncover the abundant wildlife hidden in the depths of #OurBluePlanet. This […]

Venice woke up under a blanket of snow on March 1 as the Siberian weather front reached Italy.Image: Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images By Shannon Connellan2018-03-02 10:50:39 UTC The “Beast from the East” is getting worse, with […]

The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are in for a wild ride during the next few days as a nor’easter rapidly intensifies off the East Coast of the U.S. The storm will bring with it an array […]