Not all of the research related to the ANDRILL coring project relates to climate change. Scientists at Byrd Polar Research Center are examining small fragments...
Antarctica is a tough place to predict the weather. A new forecasting model used around the world may help forecasters improve their predictions, which are...
It’s not every day hiking around the Transantarctic Mountains that one stumbles upon a piece of granite that’s 1.4 billion years old. But that “one-in-a-million”...
Diminishing sea ice. Declining krill populations. Increasing snowfall and rain. Now it appears even ticks are harassing Adélie penguins along the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula....
National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra – in the form of fossilized plants...
Ted Scambos is the lead scientist at Boulder, Colo.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, which supports research into the frozen places of the world....
The early summer season flights arrived in McMurdo later than normal to help the U.S. Antarctic Program save money in a tight fiscal environment. For...
Dinosaurs, asteroids and death – mass extinctions don’t get more exciting than the most recent one of 65 million years ago when an asteroid apparently...
Antarctic icefish would seem to serve as odd specimens for study, a family of fish endemic to the Southern Ocean that probably couldn’t survive anywhere...