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...
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...
The size of the annual ozone hole over Antarctica peaked in late September at 23.8 million square miles, slightly smaller than the North American continent,...
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...
Scientists conducting a “dress rehearsal” for deployment of an instrument through an ice shelf into the ocean below learned quite a bit about the system...
An experiment to make some of the first sustained measurements of atmospheric and oceanic conditions surrounding a polynya in Antarctica yielded not only some interesting...
It’s not easy forecasting the weather in Antarctica. But thanks to the efforts from a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that job has grown...
The average temperature at the South Pole was a bone-chilling minus 47.9 degrees Celsius (minus 54.2 Fahrenheit) in 2009. It was also the warmest year...