On Oct. 12, 1957, history was made when the first-ever commercial flight to Antarctica departed from San Francisco, carrying 37 passengers to the U.S. Naval facility at McMurdo Sound station. Thirty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN Antarctic blizzard was hampering plans to evacuate a critically-ill American from the US base at McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. A New Zealand Air Force Orion was on standby in Christchurch to make a ...

Extreme architecture, much like science, is a collaborative and evolving effort—imagine coordinating contractors in an environment that can swing between 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer to 40 ...

The hydrologic system of the coastal McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, is defined by snow accumulation, glacier melt, stream flow, and retention in closed-basin, ice-covered lakes. During the austral ...