A Re-Breath of Fresh Air
Over the past few years, there have been major advances in scuba equipment. However, Antarctica is a harsh continent, as the saying goes, and new...
Month : December 2021
A Seal Grows In Antarctica
Weddell seals thrive in some of the coldest conditions on the planet, but scientists aren’t quite sure why they don’t freeze when they’re first starting...
Secretary of State John Kerry Travels to Antarctica
Secretary of State John Kerry visited McMurdo Station on November 11, 2016, becoming the first Secretary of state to travel to Antarctica, and the most...
Masses of Mosses
As the continent warms, Antarctica is getting greener. Plants are taking hold where glaciers once covered the landscape. Moss in particular is sprouting up in...
Phoenix Rising
When a C-17 cargo plane landed at McMurdo Station’s recently completed Phoenix runway on Tuesday, Nov. 15, it meant that the station’s newest airfield had...
Stringing Together More Neutrino Detectors
The biggest experiment at the South Pole is getting a significant upgrade. Over the next three years, IceCube, the neutrino detector located at the South...
The End of Summer Armada
Over the course of about three weeks, a flotilla of ships docked at McMurdo Station to help both McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott Couth Pole stations restock...
Facing the Ultimate Acid Test
Some of the Southern Ocean’s smallest animals are facing big challenges. The once-exceedingly stable Southern Ocean around Antarctica is warming, and as it absorbs carbon...
James Stewart
James “Jim” Stewart–the chief diving officer emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the so-called “father” of the U.S. Antarctic Program’s diving program–died in...
Pumping Iron
Cold, hard iron is on the move. Particles of the ferrous metal are trickling into Antarctica’s oceans, and marine algae are gobbling it up....
