Tragedy in Antarctica
The Antarctic community mourned the loss of three men who were killed when their de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in the Transantarctic Mountains last...
Month : December 2022
Pristine Protection
The U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) will begin monitoring human impacts on the environment around its coastal research station off the Antarctic Peninsula, expanding a program...
Parade of Ships
Four vessels will visit McMurdo Station as the 2012-13 field season begins to wind down. The parade of ships includes a research vessel and Russian...
Finding Nemo
High-resolution satellite imagery is refining and reinventing the way scientists track and study wildlife populations, particularly in the Antarctic, where researchers have made headline-grabbing discoveries...
Ultimate Road Trip
Talk about the ultimate road trip. The primary South Pole operations Traverse spent nearly 100 days away from McMurdo Station during the 2012-13 season, traveling...
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...
Rightful Place
A century after the end of the Terra Nova Expedition, a historic artifact from that era will be returned to its rightful place in Antarctica....
Quick Access
Below all of Antarctica’s ice sits the answers to a host of questions about its geology, from how the continent evolved tectonically to its relationship...
Bumpy Ride
A perfect storm of warm temperatures and a big blow of dust caused disruptions at McMurdo Station’s airfield for nearly two months. It started with...
Roving Around
A team with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project deployed last year to continue an effort to understand the dynamics of the...
