Paleo Gondwanaland Was Full Of Lystrosaurs
An expedition studying the aftermath of one of Earth’s greatest global extinctions collected hundreds of prehistoric animal fossils from the mountains of Antarctica this past...
Firsthand Account
Amanda Biederman is a scientist at Palmer Station, located in one of the most rapidly warming areas on Earth, the West side of the Antarctica...
Ultraviolet Radiation Gives Microbes Mixed Messages
Ultraviolet rays from the sun may be disrupting the natural ecology of the waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. A research team, led by a scientist...
Numbers Game
Spending a winter in Antarctica is just as challenging as it sounds. For the 45 people who remain at the South Pole Station through the...
A World-Class Classroom At The Bottom Of The World
For early-career scientists, learning the ropes in Antarctica can mean donning actual safety lines and harnesses. This past austral summer, 20 students traveled to the...
Filling the Gap
The smallest of three U.S. scientific outposts in Antarctica, Palmer Station is the only one of the trio found north of the Antarctic Circle. Its...
A Chemical Detective Story: Why is Don Juan Pond So Salty?
During winter, nearly everything in Antarctica freezes solid. Except Don Juan Pond. Though only about twice the area of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and barely...
All Creatures Great and Small
The story of how Los Angeles-based artist Lily Simonson ended up scuba diving under the sea ice in Antarctica begins with a tale about lobsters,...
IceBridge Flies High
In late 2017, a specially modified airplane contracted by NASA crisscrossed Antarctica, mapping the ice below and filling in a data gap left by a...
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fine Memories
Outgoing Antarctic Sun editor Peter Rejcek reflects on his tenure with the U.S. Antarctic Program, which started more than a decade ago at the South...
