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A number of Adelie penguins around the Ross Sea are sporting sophisticated new leg bands this year. Ornithologist David Ainley and his team attached new...
Through the Looking Glass
There’s a saying that necessity is the mother of invention. April Surgent discovered that being trapped by ice at a research station in Antarctica for...
Methane Munching Microbes
VIDEO: Five years ago, a plume of natural methane started seeping out of the seafloor near McMurdo Station, providing researchers an unprecedented chance to study...
Year-Round Access
Thanks to advances in technology and capability, McMurdo Station can be reached safely at any time of the year in the case of an emergency....
Dating The East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is written in stones along the Transantarctic Mountains. Over the past two years, researchers ventured to remote...
Whiteout
There have been few pauses between a string of relentless storms in October that brought strong winds and snow to the Ross Island region since...
The Prehistoric Forests of the Frozen Continent
Paleontologists uncovered the fossil remnants of the oldest forest yet discovered in Antarctica. At about 270 million years old, the fossils come from an extinct...
Get Cracking
Between the few brief months when the sea ice in McMurdo Sound finally solidifies and then starts to fall apart again, scientists and support personnel...
The Edge Of Life
Researchers working in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys found evidence, in ancient dried microbial mats, of microorganisms that may have been alive for thousands of years....
Those Were the Days
The year was 1979. Of the many people who stepped off a plane that year, four of them are still working here 35 years later....
