Month : December 2021

As Winfly got underway this year, a spate of nasty storms blew through the area, slowing progress and adding to the annual heavy workload. Despite...

Researchers at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Polar Geospatial Center in September released the biggest and most detailed map of Antarctica ever produced....

In the past 18 months, multiple nations signed on to the international accords that administer Antarctica and the protocol overseeing its environmental stewardship. At the...

A new network of automated instruments throughout the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, is dramatically changing how scientists view the planet’s least understood ocean....

Residents of McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base joined together on Veterans Day to honor the service of their nations’ men and women in...

For a half a century, generations of researchers have studied various aspects of the life cycle of generations of Weddell seals around Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound,...

Party balloons greeted Rob Robbins as he climbed out of the icy waters of McMurdo Sound on October 22. The colorful additions to the typically...

Climate change is expected to be stressful on fish species worldwide: as the climate warms, so too will the oceans, putting a strain on creatures...

For one afternoon in December, McMurdo’s dining hall was transformed into a small bazaar of handmade wares. At the annual December Craft Fair, station residents...

Scientists want to know how many emperor penguins there are in the world, and they’re using Earth-observing satellites to count them....