Winter Airdrop
It’s a mission that the U.S. Air Force has trained for during the last five years of supporting research in Antarctica, but it was the...
Month : December 2022
Fungi Erupt on Erebus
Researchers have identified more than 60 species of fungi from an ice cave near the top of Mount Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica. The...
Planning for the Future
There are few places in Antarctica as heavily researched as the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which is home to unique ecosystems that range from the saltiest...
Growing Cold
Perhaps the most well-known and intensely studied trait of many Antarctic fish is their ability to produce a sort of antifreeze protein that prevents them...
Growing membership
Welcome to the party, Malaysia. The Southeast Asian country will become the 49th party to the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement that preserves the continent...
Breaking Away
Nearly two years after NASA scientists discovered a huge crack across the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, an iceberg bigger than the city of Chicago...
‘Tis the Season
The long winter for those hunkered down at McMurdo Station is finally over. The first flight of the 2011-12 summer field season landed Oct. 4...
Protected Area
One of the world’s largest emperor penguin colonies and the first documented Antarctic silverfish nursery have been given special protection under the Antarctic Treaty System...
Windy Days
The popular imagination usually conjures up a picture of the South Pole as a white, desolate place with bone-chillingly cold and gale-force winds that could...
