Category : Oceans and Atmosphere

AWARE, the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) is a part of the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM). The National Science Foundation...

It is no small undertaking to design and build a 25-foot-long underwater robot, launch it through a narrow hole drilled through 20 feet of sea...

The Earth is constantly showered with micrometeorites, every minute of every day. These interstellar particles are no bigger than a grain of sand, but are...

VIDEO: Five years ago, a plume of natural methane started seeping out of the seafloor near McMurdo Station, providing researchers an unprecedented chance to study...

Snow in some form or another blankets almost all Antarctica, but measuring exactly how much snow falls from the sky is tricky. A team of...

A new network of automated instruments throughout the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, is dramatically changing how scientists view the planet’s least understood ocean....

Navigating a robot through the frozen ocean’s frigid waters was all in a day’s work for the RISE UP science team. From their makeshift mission...

For a big mass of air, the Earth’s upper atmosphere is a complicated place. The changing seasons cause temperatures and pressures to rise and fall,...

During the past austral summer, scientists released an autonomous seafaring robot into the Southern Ocean. For four months, the small “Wave Glider” navigated the frigid...

Salt levels in an ice core drilled at the South Pole are telling scientists what Antarctic sea ice conditions were like in ages past, information...