Lesley Urasky went to Antarctica to teach her students at Rawlins High School in Wyoming something about polar science and the history of the continent’s...
Remote observatories generating gigabytes of data on the weather from Antarctica’s vast ice sheets. An array of buoys and gliders bobbing and cruising through the...
Three years after its official end, the groundbreaking discoveries of the International Polar Year have been collected in a new report sponsored by the National...
The International Polar Year resulted in astounding discoveries and built new observation networks in the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet. But perhaps...
Antarctica faces an uncertain future amidst growing pressures from global climate change and human activities – a major conservation challenge that will require a commitment...
It’s been 26 years since the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) had held one of its biannual meetings in the United States before July’s...
James McClintock, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and National Science Foundation-funded researcher, has distilled 30 years of research and experiences in...