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The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...
Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...
East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...
The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...
The figure then rose to 142.06 gigatons annually between 2011 and 2020, most of the loss coming from West Antarctica and the Wilkes Land-Queen Mary Land (WL-QML) region in East Antarctica ...
Cassie Litton What were you afraid of as a kid? For Lainey Litton, it's John Wilkes Booth. Cassie Litton and her family were in Washington, D.C. for Thanksgiving when they decided to visit the ...
The North Branch Land Trust hosted its annual auction and dinner April 30 at the Westmoreland Club in Wilkes-Barre. The Tambur Family Foundation was honored with the North Branch Land Trust ...
24, at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre. A presale for Kirby Center members begins Tuesday, with sales for the public beginning Friday, both at 10 a.m. Tickets begin ...
Tony Press receives funding from the Australia-Japan Foundation (Department of .Foreign Affairs and Trade) President Donald Trump has begun eroding the United States presence in Antarctica by ...
WILKES COUNTY, N.C. — At a meeting Tuesday night, the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to dissolve its rescue squad. The squad had been around for 70 years and helped ...