Category : Earth

Geologists and other scientists will venture to remote places in Antarctica to collect rock specimens that may reveal clues about the continent’s past geologic, or...

Kenneth Sims is a geologist who specializes in using naturally occurring radiogenic isotopes to study Earth processes. Not the sort of high-tech job that one...

Tyler Mackey slips through a hole in an ice-covered lake in Antarctica, dropping a dozen meters into the near-freezing water and diving back about 2.5...

Are the McMurdo Dry Valleys melting? It may seem like a strange question to ask about one of Antarctica’s few relatively ice-free places. However, ice...

Paleontologists head to the hills in Antarctica to recover plant fossils. Among their amazing finds are the second largest fossil forests ever found in Antarctica...

The name alone evokes a certain mystery on a continent riddled with enigmas. Blood Falls, however, is slowly giving up its secrets. A team of...

There is an underground movement underway in Antarctica. This particular movement doesn’t involve radical political parties or fringe music festivals, though the idea of super...

One way to understand how Antarctica’s ice will melt – which glaciers will recede when – is to look at how it happened in the...

The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe. When asked what this water might...

Today the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique geographic feature in Antarctica, lowland regions away from the coast with no ice cover. However, unusual mineral...