From rural Australia to Siberia to the south-western US state of Oklahoma, languages that embody the history and traditions of people are dying, US researchers said today.

THE rate of ice melting in the Arctic is leading to an ocean ice-free in summer and researchers see no natural process likely to change that trend.

A US Air Force medevac plane carrying three sick workers from an American research station on the Antarctic coast landed in New Zealand today, after a daring flight to the icy continent, officials said.

The fossilised remains of a new, long-necked dinosaur have been found in Madagascar.