Mountaineer Derek Mahon recently became the 15th and oldest Irish person to summit the highest peaks on seven continents.
In a November 24 statement by Senior Airman Colleen Anthony of the 62nd Airlift Wing, USAF Col. Matthew McNulty, the outgoing ...
When I was a 14-year-old girl in California, I wrote a letter to an Antarctic expedition ... swirled past in slow motion. The ice wasn’t white; it shone blue, gray, and brown, with glacial ...
The BAS Dash-7 aircraft landing on the blue-ice runway at Sky-Blu Field Station (Pete Bucktrout) Beyond EPICA pushes toward Earth's oldest ice In East Antarctica, the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project ...
Sierra de Los Baguales, Range of the Wild Horses, is an east-west chain of mountains near where Chile meets Argentina, ...
The current station, commissioned in 2008, is the third major station the U.S. Antarctic Program has built ... and just wandered around on the ice tarmac, taking it all in. The view from the runway is ...
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 ...
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 ...