Challenging Orthodoxy
A team of scientists working around Byrd Glacier in Antarctica this season may shake up scientific orthodoxy about the formation of the continent’s tallest and...
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Alps in Antarctica
A U.S.-led international team of scientists has created the first detailed picture of a rugged mountain range buried under more than 4 kilometers of ice...
Antarctic Bird Nest?
The previous discovery of a new bird species related to ducks and geese on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula has encouraged scientists to look...
The Poop on Penguins
Penguin guano stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica. For the survey, the researchers used satellite images...
New Scientific Mode
LARISSA brings together more than 30 scientists for one expedition, some working from an ice core camp on the Antarctic Peninsula while most will carry...
LARISSA
The LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica, project is an interdisciplinary program to study as many facets of an ice shelf ecosystem as possible, from the...
System Study
The LARISSA project is a way for scientists to look at a small system and all the bits and pieces that contribute to its fundamental...
Rocking Science
Field researchers in Antarctica have returned with more than 17,500 meteorites over the 30-plus years that the extraterrestrial material has been collected from the frozen...
Icehouse Link
A team of U.S. and British scientists braved lions and hyenas in East Africa to extract microfossils in samples of rocks, which helped them link...
