Category : Earth

Mount Erebus is famous for its persistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest...

One of the premiere projects of the International Polar Year (IPY), ANDRILL is a $30 million geological time machine. Using a specialized rig adapted for...

A mountain range the size of the European Alps, but buried below hundreds of meters of ice and snow, has puzzled and enticed Antarctic scientists...

More than 15 years since first discovering dinosaur bones on Antarctica’s Mount Kirkpatrick, scientists confirmed this month that the remains belonged to a previously undiscovered...

After 25 years of conducting research in the Antarctic, glaciologist Robert Bindschadler finally got his wish – a true color map of the continent that...

It doesn’t get any better than the McMurdo Dry Valleys if you want to get at the deep roots of a volcano’s magma system, to...

A chance meeting between a digital cartography whiz and a geologist in need of a three-dimensional way to represent the McMurdo Dry Valleys has spawned...

For the second straight season the scientific program known as ANDRILL enjoyed unprecedented success, extracting a sediment core 1,138.54 meters below the seafloor with a...

To look deep inside an Antarctic volcano, scientist Phil Kyle and his team have to use a little force. Researchers spent more than three months...

Edith Taylor, a paleobotanist at the University of Kansas, seeks answers to how flowering seed plants, the dominate flora species today, evolved over time. She...