The Shadow Knows
It all started with a science fair project at James Monroe Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M. Last month, teacher Turtle Haste and her student Andy...
Going Higher and Longer
The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super-pressure balloon prototype that will one...
The Leading Edge
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have teamed up to explore one of the last relatively uncharted areas of East Antarctica, an...
No Longer the Exception
Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica – the...
Failing Food Pantry?
Hundreds of meters below the sea ice sits the continental shelf, home to a unique marine menagerie. How this community will respond to climate change...
Alps in Antarctica
A U.S.-led international team of scientists has created the first detailed picture of a rugged mountain range buried under more than 4 kilometers of ice...
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...
Tagged
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...
