A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...
An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...
A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. The reason is that this unloading of ice sheets reduces pressure on magma chambers below the ...
As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long fin to sweep a net of bubbles around its prey and trap them, known as "bubble-netting".
Jordan Wylie says he will spend the rest of 2025 training for his three-week Antarctic expedition A former soldier has promised to pose for a selfie on the summit of an Antarctic mountain while ...
This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...
Former Pikesville high school principal Eric Eiswert says his employer, the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), essentially hung him out to dry. When an audio clip went viral last January, ...
Researchers say social media is contributing to the growing popularity of tourism in Antarctica, where annual visitor numbers surged to 124,000 over the past year. But there is concern that the ...
You can read about the roles and apply at the links below. Applications close 19 January 2025. We regularly recruit for roles in Antarctica. There are roles at Casey, Davis and Mawson stations. There ...
By Travis Diehl The 45-year-old architect had mostly designed temporary structures before becoming the first woman to design a wing at the country’s largest art museum. By Robin Pogrebin ...