Warmer continent
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...
The Great Dying
About a quarter of a billion years ago, the most severe extinction event in the planet’s history wiped out just about every form of life...
Serious science
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....
Ozone Hole
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...
What Killed the Dinosaurs?
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...
The Bloodless Icefishes
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...
Going Airborne
West Antarctica and Greenland get all the press when it comes to stories about climate change. But East Antarctica has more ice than both of...
House Call
The Larsen C Ice Shelf is the most likely suspect to succumb to the warming climate along the Antarctic Peninsula in the next decade. Scientists...
Antarctica’s Holy Grail
Stephen Pekar, a geologist at Queens College in New York, will lead a 15-member team across the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to a site...
Probing Dark Energy
Scientists have studied the night sky for thousands of years searching for clues to help them understand the universe. The South Pole Telescope team achieved...
