Icehouse Link
A team of U.S. and British scientists braved lions and hyenas in East Africa to extract microfossils in samples of rocks, which helped them link...
Month : February 2023
Microbial Landscape
There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who...
Rich Layer
Antarctica once enjoyed summer-time temperatures that averaged 10 degrees Celsius – a climate more suited for a warm fleece than a thick parka – about...
NASA Ice Bridge
A satellite launched by NASA in 2003 to keep an eye on the massive ice sheets that cover the polar regions will soon reach the...
Changing Diet
By studying the tissue remains of penguins in Antarctica, scientists are not only learning more about the modern diet of the continent’s iconic seabird but...
Standard Knowledge
Findings by an international team of scientists using a telescope located at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s South Pole Station show that cosmologists probably do know...
Bounds of Biodiversity
Scientists who normally spend much of the austral summer in the McMurdo Dry Valleys conducting long-term studies on that polar desert ecosystem are taking their...
Getting the Drift
A large iceberg spotted about midway between Australia and Antarctica by scientists on Macquarie Island may be a distant relative of one of the big...
Ozone Hole 2009
The size of the annual ozone hole over Antarctica peaked in late September at 23.8 million square miles, slightly smaller than the North American continent,...
Big Science
Francis Halzen is no ordinary academic, even though his background is in theoretical physics, a realm of abstract reality where E=mc2 and Star Trek scriptwriters...
