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...
Pulse on Polynyas
Polynyas, areas of open water in sea ice, play an important role in global ocean circulation and heat exchange in the atmosphere. A team of...
Exploring Bonney
A robot that may one day explore distant worlds made its first successful foray into an ice-covered lake in Antarctica last year....
SCINI in the Sound
It seemed unlikely too many marine organisms could make a living under the dark shadow of an ice shelf, with the ice some 200 meters...
Sea Level Rise Revised
A new study in the journal Science challenges the long-held idea that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea level by as much as...
