High in a narrow, seawater-filled crevasse in the base of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, cameras on the remotely operated Icefin underwater vehicle relayed a sudden change in scenery.
At the time of our arrival at Neumayer Station III. Technically it is morning, but the long journey has messed up my internal clock.
Some regions on Earth are as mysterious as distant celestial bodies – but equally explored. These include subglacial lakes in Antarctica. These lakes lie under a permanent layer of ice, […]
NASA-supported researchers have studied a bacteria on Earth to gain insight into the mechanisms that organisms could use to survive on cold solar system bodies like Mars and Europa.
Enceladus is a dynamic icy moon of Saturn and a leading target for future planetary missions focused on the search for life beyond Earth.
Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth’s coldest and driest deserts.
Keith, Denis and Andre just returned from a hike to the moraine located several hundred meters above the Aurkjosen Cirque, having redeployed the temperature loggers used to monitor temperature and […]
Water is inextricably linked to our understanding of life—it makes up most of our planet’s surface and organisms across the tree of life depend on it to function. Yet the […]
Abstract The cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis contains species found in extreme environments, thus providing the opportunity to study adaptation to a range of environments within the confines of a single genus. Due […]
Scientists discover evidence of 187 taxonomic orders from just 20 liters of water collected in one of the Earth’s harshest environments A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation […]
