Tropical Connection
As the tropics go, so goes West Antarctica. That’s the conclusion from scientists who analyzed ice cores recovered by the U.S. component of the International...
Lost Fossils
The bottom of McMurdo Sound is teeming with life – from brittle stars to scallops to wildly diverse single-celled critters called foraminifera. That’s the story...
Deep Into WAIS Divide
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core program will enter its second drilling season as the team races against the clock to get through...
Connecting the Pieces
It’s been about 20 years since the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs initiated a program to recover an ice core from Greenland. Now...
Biological Pulse
Outside of penguins and seals that congregate on the continent’s coastal fringes, Antarctica appears to be a lifeless cube of ice, where only humans have...
Bridge to the Past
Was part of Antarctica once a sort of highway upon which vertebrates, perhaps even early mammals, traversed between South America and Australia? That is just...
Focus on IPY
There are more than 200 science projects around the world flying the International Polar Year banner. One group envisions weaving all those stories of scientific...
Going With the Flow
A team of oceanographers will spend more than three weeks in the infamously rough Drake Passage to learn more about the world’s largest ocean current,...
Going on a Diet
There’s an old saying: You are what you eat. But the krill-based diet of penguins breeding and living on King George Island off the northern...
Keeping Track
Mike Goebel uses high- and low-tech methods to find what Antarctic fur seals had for dinner. The interest in diet isn’t simply for curiosity’s sake....
