What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...
Scientists using satellite data have now created the most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal unprecedented views of surface features that provide ...
Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...
Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...
There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...
Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...
A huge iceberg the size of Las Vegas has broken off from an Antarctica ice shelf. Maps created with GPS equipment show the 235-mile-long iceberg breaking off from the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is ...
This folder is part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. He participated in many field trips and expeditions to observe crustaceans in the USA and around the world.