Balancing Act
Ian Joughin and his team have a tough job ahead of them: Determine how much ice from a vast swath of West Antarctica is being...
Category : Ice and Snow
Pine Island Glacier
Nearly a third of the ice in West Antarctica drains through the Pine Island Glacier area. Were it to all pour out in a catastrophic...
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...
Old Ice
It took the EPICA project more than five field seasons to drill down into 850,000 years of climate history. Andrei Kurbatov and his colleagues believe...
NASA Ice Bridge
A satellite launched by NASA in 2003 to keep an eye on the massive ice sheets that cover the polar regions will soon reach the...
Getting the Drift
A large iceberg spotted about midway between Australia and Antarctica by scientists on Macquarie Island may be a distant relative of one of the big...
Core of Drilling
Need an ice core in an area where you may drill through bits of sand and rock? Better use a Koci Drill. Doing a little...
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...
