There's nothing like carrying a pee bottle to remind you of your personal impact on the environment. Staffers with the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) mentioned pee bottles ...

The sea ice in front of New Zealand’s Scott Base breaks apart last week. The station manager reported that open water has not been seen in front of Scott Base since 1998. Ryan Wallace, McMurdo ...

Boulder, CO, USA - Geosphere articles published online 22 Nov. 2011 are provided below. Highlights include additions to two themed issues: (1) New Developments in Grenville Geology and (2) ANDRILL ...

A second season in Antarctica for the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program has exceeded all expectations providing researchers with more than a kilometer of pristine rock core that records the ...

Vol. 82, No. 2/3, Glacial and Paleoclimatic History of the Ross Ice Drainage System of Antarctica (2000), pp. 167-211 (45 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. A grounded ice sheet fed from the ...

At least four major Quaternary glaciations, each successively less extensive than the former, are recorded in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica. Deposits of the earliest recognized glacial ...

U.S. and Russian icebreakers have cleared a path through the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to allow the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's logistics hub in Antarctica ...

One of my little life goals has always been to get an Antarctica Zippo lighter from the McMurdo base at the bottom of the world. I have romantic feelings about Antarctica in general, and McMurdo in ...

In the early 1900’s, Ross Island acted as a base for multiple Antarctic exploration expeditions led by the likes of Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott. Remnants of the heroic age of Antarctic ...

A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science ...