Earthshaking discovery
Douglas Wiens and colleagues combined seismological and GPS data to reveal that an ice stream in West Antarctica releases two bursts of seismic waves every...
Without a trace
Ice cores contain a wealth of information about past climate and environmental conditions, with clues in the form of trapped bubbles of gas and varying...
Dusting up
Ellen Mosley-Thompson helped pioneer ice core research beginning in the 1970s, when she and her colleague, Lonnie Thompson, discovered that dust particles could tell scientists...
Balloon-borne telescopes take baby pictures of the cosmos
The SPIDER instrument has finished its 16-day voyage through the stratosphere above Antarctica, completing the second and final flight of its mission to search for...
Last thread
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. It is...
Tiny pieces
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...
A new model
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...
‘One in a million’
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”...
Losing count
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....
