Poised for the Plunge
The final push by a team of U.S. scientists to explore a lake nearly a kilometer below the ice sheet is about to begin. Their...
Category : Earth
Water World
In the end, it took a little bit of magic and quite a lot of effort, but U.S. scientists announced this week that they successfully...
Life Under the Ice
It’s life. But is it life as we know it? That question will be answered in the months ahead, but it appears that the first...
Roving Around Erebus
Twenty years after an arachnid-shaped robot stalled out on its descent into the noxious crater of an Antarctic volcano, an altogether different rover could be...
Under the Covers
Scientists revealed what lies underneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheets in unprecedented detail in a new map that was published in the open-access journal The Cryosphere...
Movers and Shakers
Once upon a time, in the age of brick-sized mobile phones and big-hair bands, a high-precision GPS receiver was a high-priced commodity. Today, university-governed organization...
Fungi Erupt on Erebus
Researchers have identified more than 60 species of fungi from an ice cave near the top of Mount Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica. The...
Seeing the Light
Researchers have documented the first signs of significant permafrost melt in Antarctica from a small valley where an exposed cliff face contains ice from the...
Earth-Shaking Research
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are conducting a study in the New Zealand city of Christchurch with the hope of learning how...
