Collaborate Disseminate
Scientists found a carcass of the extremophile, microbial tardigrade a kilometer underground near an Antarctic lake. Continue reading Dead Tardigrade Found Buried 3,200 feet-Deep in Antarctica Lake
“As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-meter sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries.” Continue reading Antarctica Is Losing Six Times As Much Ice Mass As It Was 40 Years Ago
For years, Giertz’s robo-fails have made us laugh. Now she wants to build something that will actually help people. Continue reading Life After a Brain Tumor With Simone Giertz, the Queen of Shitty Robots
“This small archipelago, that measures only 15 kilometers from one end to the other, has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.” Continue reading Scientists Discover Hidden ‘Supercolony’ of 1.5 Million Penguins After Tracking Poop From Space
“I refer to myself as being in the Lucky Lucky Seven Club, as in, I’ve gotten lucky on all seven continents. I mean, wouldn’t you?” Continue reading Real ‘Ice Wives’ and Husbands of Antarctica: Friends With Benefits Keep the South Pole Steamy
“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica.” Continue reading Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica
The tabular iceberg recently broke from the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Continue reading How Did Nature Form This Near-Perfect Rectangular Iceberg?
The blood red falls tumble out of a glacier 100 feet to a lake below. Continue reading Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Antarctica’s Blood Falls
It’s the latest chapter in a legal saga over international whaling rules. Continue reading Japan’s Latest Whale Hunt Killed 122 Pregnant Females and 114 Juveniles
There may be no place on Earth less visited by humans than the South Pole. Despite a permanent research base with buildings clustered about the pole and active scientific programs, comparatively few people have made the arduous journey there. From October to February, up to 200 people may be stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for the Antarctic summer, and tourists checking an item off their bucket lists come and go. But by March, when the sun dips below the horizon for the next six months, almost everyone has cleared out, except for a couple of dozen “winter-overs” who …read more
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