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3/10/2008
Read dispatches from NASA-, NOAA-, and NSF-funded researchers at sea about doing science while living daily life in one of the Earth's most extreme environments. So what exactly is the "House of Pain" or the "Oracle of Delta"?
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3/6/2008
Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought.
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3/6/2008
USGS and Russian scientists recently developed a new modeling approach, based entirely on historical observations, to estimate sea-ice thickness.
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3/5/2008
The nation’s largest icebreaker, USCGC Healy, left its home port of Seattle on March 6 to begin six months of scientific deployments in the Arctic studying the Bering Sea ecosystem.
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3/4/2008
For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
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3/3/2008
A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole.
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2/29/2008
Researchers studying cores of sediment collected 40 years ago have found evidence for magnetic field vortices in the Earth's core beneath the South Pole. The results came from materials collected by the U.S. Navy as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
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2/27/2008
NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel.
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2/27/2008
Scientists from over a dozen institutions will embark today to spend 42 days amid the high winds and big waves of the Southern Ocean, to try to explain how large amounts of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.
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2/27/2008
Kenji Yoshikawa will discuss permafrost areas in Alaska most susceptible to degradation and how a school-based monitoring project is helping to understand these changes. Tuesday, March 4th at 10 a.m. (local time).
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