Is Anybody Listening?
Is anybody listening? That was the subject for a panel of science writers who recently participated in an energy and climate change symposium at the...
Month : January 2023
Winging It
The theory that close relatives of modern birds once co-existed with non-avian dinosaurs before a mass extinction 65 million years ago had trouble flying with...
Night Vision
It’s been nearly 80 years since Adm. Richard Byrd made his famous flight over the South Pole, enough time surely for all aviation firsts to...
Deep Core Complete
The U.S. Antarctic Program has drilled and recovered its longest ice core to date from the polar regions. It took five years working from a...
Air Awards
Military personnel who support the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) recently received recognition for their work in Operation Deep Freeze and other missions....
Fresh Water
A supraglacial stream on the Cotton Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys contains a unique type of dissolved organic matter found nowhere else in the...
The Unexpected
By definition, an adventure involves the unexpected. Author Nancy Etchemendy knew she was signing up for an adventure when she agreed to join a group...
Super Breeders
For 15 years, U.S. researchers in Antarctica have watched the ebb and flow of Adélie penguin colony populations around the Ross Sea. Now they are...
Fire at Russian Station
A fire claimed one life, injured two people, and destroyed a two-story building at the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE) research station Progress in East Antarctica...
Population Pressures
The penguin colonies of the Ross Sea are in flux, with one colony in steep decline while the populations at other colonies in the region...
