More than 250 people labor at the South Pole each austral summer, supporting and conducting a dizzying array of scientific research. But scientists aren’t the...
Science doesn’t just happen in sterile labs. Researchers interested in studying one of the world’s fastest-changing ecosystems spend months at a time living out of...
A February storm wrecked a field camp on Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, forcing the team of scientists to abandon their project earlier than...
A trio of storms in April blanketed McMurdo Station in Antarctica, breaking a 41-year record for snowfall and coming close to challenging a world record...
Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, the former South Pole physician who was diagnosed with breast cancer during the middle of the Antarctic winter, succumbed to the...
Terry Tickhill Terrell was a 19-year-old undergraduate student in 1969 when she walked into the then-Institute of Polar Studies at The Ohio State University and...