Outliving Expectations
Concluding 32 years of distinguished service for global communications, one of three aged communications satellites used to connect South Pole Station to the rest of...
Month : January 2023
Whale of a Number
Scientists reported last week in the online science journal PLoS ONE that they observed a super-aggregation of more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the...
Field of Dreams
In many ways, the South Pole has become an ice-covered field of dreams. The continent’s newest and most advanced research station has attracted major, multi-million...
Hope for Education
Lesley Urasky went to Antarctica to teach her students at Rawlins High School in Wyoming something about polar science and the history of the continent’s...
Together Again
Morton Beebe and Geoffrey Lee Martin shared in the adventure of the International Geophysical Year more than 50 years ago. Now they’ve reunited to write...
Unzipping Climate Change
Ice sheets in the northern hemisphere began a relatively quick retreat at the end of the last ice age. Antarctica didn’t really get going until...
‘Ice People’
Filmmaker Anne Aghion’s latest documentary takes the viewer on a far-away journey to Antarctica, where she wants her audience to feel the wintery blasts of...
Magnetic pull
Scientist Philip Wannamaker lets nature do half the work when it comes to studying the deep geology of the Earth. He led a research team...
Prince of Monaco
Prince Albert II of Monaco made a month-long visit to Antarctica to view the impact of climate change at the Earth’s southern tip. His visit...
Fixed on the Future
The South Pole Telescope is a bold experiment that has already made some big discoveries. But the latest feat involving the project is one researchers...
