Microbial Landscape
There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who...
Category : Earth
Rich Layer
Antarctica once enjoyed summer-time temperatures that averaged 10 degrees Celsius – a climate more suited for a warm fleece than a thick parka – about...
State of the Antarctic
A week before world leaders sat down for a major climate conference in Copenhagen this month, an international scientific body released the first comprehensive report...
Climate Refuge
Life on Earth hit a particularly rough patch about 250 million years ago, when most organisms perished in a mass extinction event. Some vertebrate species...
Moving Target
Scientists plan to go to the literal edge of Antarctica in hopes of learning more about its climactic past, long before ice sheets covered 98...
Peering Back
New results from a research expedition in Antarctic waters may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climate change in...
Lasting Experience
Eugene Domack was about six hours away from leaving Chile and returning to his family after working more than two months in Antarctica when the...
Changing Course
Extreme sea ice conditions and one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes bookended a two-month science expedition to the Antarctica earlier this year, ensuring few...
Antarctic beachcombing
Alexander Simms and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University recently returned from the beach, but they don’t have the tans to show for it....
Groundwater could connect two of Earth’s saltiest bodies of water
Liquid brine permeates the ground below Antarctica’s largest ice-free area, new research finds....
