Subglacial Waterworks
Scientists have known that lakes exist beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets since the late 1960s, but only more recently have glaciologists like Slawek Tulaczyk discovered that...
Month : February 2023
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Just what does a humpback whale in the Southern Ocean do all day? Well, eat, that’s for certain. A lot. But how much? It’s a...
Shifting Winds
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last...
Spotlight on Astronomy
Two National Science Foundation experiments at the South Pole will be featured in a live Webcast as part of a special event marking the 2009...
IPY Legacies
The International Polar Year (IPY) officially comes to a close this month. But the legacy of the two-year campaign to learn more about the world’s...
Starlight, Starbright
After two years analyzing data from the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope project, an international group of astronomers and astrophysicists from the United States, Canada and...
Pine Island Cruise
Few ships ever make it to the front of the Pine Island Glacier because of the near-constant blockade of sea ice in the adjoining bay....
IPY Traverse
A joint team of Norwegian and American scientists spent more than three months in East Antarctica drilling ice cores, exploring subglacial lakes and taking measurements...
Ancient Microbes
A cold, dark and oxygen-poor reservoir of water chemically similar to seawater seems an unlikely place to find a functioning ecosystem, particularly one trapped under...
Wilkins Ice Shelf
The ice bridge is gone. Now ice bergs are calving off the new front. But the Wilkins Ice Shelf is still hanging on, and Ted...
