Summer Storm
An unusually strong summer storm at South Pole stopped flights from arriving for four days. But it didn’t slow down hardy Polies from continuing to...
Month : January 2023
Gas Leak?
A new study by an international team of scientists in the August 30 issue of the prestigious journal Nature suggests that Antarctica could be an...
Pole Patriotism
South Pole Station residents gather at the geographic pole on Veteran’s Day in honor of the holiday. The U.S. military has a long history of...
Cut In Half
An iconic chinstrap penguin colony on Deception Island, a popular stop for tourists to the Antarctic Peninsula, has declined by more than 50 percent in...
Diplomatic Visit
David Huebner, United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, went to Antarctica this past week, his first visit to the icy continent since being...
Explosive Event
New data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) indicate that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an...
Fraser’s Penguins
Journalist Fen Montaigne traveled to Antarctica in 2005 on a grant from the National Science Foundation to write a book about Bill Fraser’s decades-long research...
Motion Capture
It’s been about 20 years since anyone attempted to follow Weddell seals through the Antarctic winter. But a multidisciplinary team of scientists is using the...
Perfect Storm
The South Pole Operations Traverse, which uses tracked Caterpillar and Case tractors to haul bladders of fuel and sleds of cargo across the continent, was...
Raising Notothenioidei
The cold-loving fish that inhabit the Southern Ocean are Antarctica’s version of Darwinian finches. Now, researchers are delving into molecular genetics to understand how millions...
