Take In the Air
Scientists head to Antarctica for many reasons. Some are interested in ice cores. Others study the continent’s iconic wildlife. A few use the clear, crisp...
Category : Oceans and Atmosphere
Reaching a New Low
Scientists recently announced that they had found the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record...
Tall Order
Sound like an awesome trip? Snowmobile to the middle of nowhere, set up camp and fly radio-controlled airplanes. Now take that same scenario and move...
Converging Factors
The phrase “going with the flow” takes on a different meaning for scientists studying how tides along the Antarctic Peninsula influence where Adelie penguins go...
Record High
A warm winter at the South Pole helped make 2013 as the year with highest annually averaged temperature since records began there nearly 60 years...
High-Water Mark
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing support to help launch a $21 million interdisciplinary initiative involving 11 institutions across the United States to study...
Expansion
Sea ice around Antarctica appears headed for another record year. NSIDC, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, reported that the five-day average for sea...
Salt Spray
A team of atmospheric scientists, led by Lars Kalnajs at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Peter DeCarlo at Drexel University, are making some...
El Nino in Antarctica
If the weather at the bottom of the world seems a little out of whack this year, blame El Nino. Every few years, the ocean...
The Southern Ocean’s Carbon Sink Stronger than Ever
The waters around Antarctica seem to have reversed a troubling trend. Bucking predictions, observations now show that the Southern Ocean is pulling more carbon dioxide...
