Wired
Lasers aren’t just for evil geniuses in spoof movies who want to outfit sharks with the latest in weapon technology. Scientists are using fiber-optic and...
Category : Oceans and Atmosphere
Going Up
The Arctic crossed a disturbing threshold this past spring. And the Antarctic isn’t too far behind. NOAA scientists recently announced that the concentration of carbon...
A Good Proxy
In 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered in spectacular fashion, shocking the polar science community with the rapidity of its disintegration. A decade later,...
Crossing Boundaries
There’s typically a lag in traffic above the airspace around McMurdo Station during the month of September before the beginning of the Antarctic summer field...
Coordinated Effort
The world’s newest ocean, only recognized as such in 2000, is the least understood by scientists thanks, in part, to its remoteness, its wild weather...
Magical Realism
The biggest research program of the post-International Polar Year (IPY) era for the U.S. Antarctic Program, WISSARD brings together more than a dozen principal investigators...
Shrinking Down
The annual ozone hole that forms above Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere spring is the second smallest recorded in two decades....
Trending Up
West Antarctica is heating up and is among the most rapidly warming regions on the planet. That’s the conclusion of a team of scientists who...
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...
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...
