A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler's remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.

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archaeologist with grey curly hair wearing glasses black and white striped t shirt and blue medical gloves holding a tattered ancient leather shoe
Pierre-Yves Nicod holds the mystery traveler's 400-year-old shoe.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated

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Newark City employee Sushil Nagpal stands outside homes that were damaged and had to be evacuated after the earthquake on Friday,

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Researchers discovered a hidden Antarctic landscape under a layer of ice over a mile thick that shows how different the continent looked millions of years ago

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A small boat in the water near the Admiralty Mountains in the east of Antarctica
The Admiralty Mountains loom in eastern Antarctica.

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The remains of long-lost climbers are appearing as climate change melts glaciers

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Ice on a glacier melting into dripping water.
A melted glacier revealed the remains of a long-lost German mountain climber this month.

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The Earth has tilted on its axis differently over the last few decades due to melting ice caps

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The Earth is shown in a picture taken from space, from above its pole.
NASA's asteroid-bound NEAR spacecraft took this mosaic image of Earth in January 1998.

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