Researchers at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Polar Geospatial Center in September released the biggest and most detailed map of Antarctica ever produced....
In the past 18 months, multiple nations signed on to the international accords that administer Antarctica and the protocol overseeing its environmental stewardship. At the...
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....
For a half a century, generations of researchers have studied various aspects of the life cycle of generations of Weddell seals around Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound,...
For one afternoon in December, McMurdo’s dining hall was transformed into a small bazaar of handmade wares. At the annual December Craft Fair, station residents...