Category : Earth

In Antarctica, where the weight of its mighty ice sheets have squashed the earth’s crust below, Terry Wilson and an international team of scientists are...

Earth scientists David Barbeau and Ian Dalziel both want to know exactly when the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula opened, an...

Not all of the research related to the ANDRILL coring project relates to climate change. Scientists at Byrd Polar Research Center are examining small fragments...

It’s not every day hiking around the Transantarctic Mountains that one stumbles upon a piece of granite that’s 1.4 billion years old. But that “one-in-a-million”...

National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra – in the form of fossilized plants...

About a quarter of a billion years ago, the most severe extinction event in the planet’s history wiped out just about every form of life...

Dinosaurs, asteroids and death – mass extinctions don’t get more exciting than the most recent one of 65 million years ago when an asteroid apparently...

Stephen Pekar, a geologist at Queens College in New York, will lead a 15-member team across the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to a site...

The bottom of McMurdo Sound is teeming with life – from brittle stars to scallops to wildly diverse single-celled critters called foraminifera. That’s the story...

Was part of Antarctica once a sort of highway upon which vertebrates, perhaps even early mammals, traversed between South America and Australia? That is just...