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IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos   |
Outside
November 2001
Rob Buchanan |
Beat the Crowds. Antarctica Now. As the Last Cool Place becomes an adventure-travel magnet, the scientists and bureaucrats who run the show are feeling crowded. Is this big, beautiful continent big enough for everybody? |
Geotimes
March 2006
Lisa Rossbacher |
Can You Hear me Now? The world of communication is completely different from what the early explorers of this continent experienced -- one full of constant connection. |
Fast Company
October 1999
Curtis Sittenfeld |
Leader on the Edge World-renowned explorer Robert Swan is the first person ever to walk to both the North and South Poles. Now he's teaching businesspeople about leadership under life-and-death conditions. |
Chemistry World
August 2008 |
Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists |
Chemistry World
July 2011
Laura Howes |
Beyond the Frontiers In space and Antarctica, planning and running research projects transcends national borders. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
Adventure
April 2006
Richard A. Lovett |
Bears, Winds Fail to Derail Winter North Pole Trek The first ever winter trek to the North Pole reached its goal despite setbacks from weather, equipment failures, and polar bears. |
Outside
February 2007
Jason Daley |
Shelf Life Welcome to Halley VI, the swankiest address this side of Dronning Maud Land. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
Geotimes
February 2005
Martin & Case |
Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present. |
Fast Company
December 2009
Anne C. Lee |
Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50 On the first of December 1959, 12 nations signed a pact freezing territorial claims and banning military activity in Antarctica. Here's a tour. |
Outside
January 2004
Michael Roberts |
Permamush Will Steger launches a new Arctic dogsled expedition to put global warming on the world's front burner. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
James Oberg |
Breathing Easy in Space Is Never Easy Problems with oxygen generators aboard the space station could have big implications. |
Popular Mechanics
November 15, 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Rand Simberg |
The Uncertain Future of the International Space Station: Analysis The International Space Station isn't scheduled to be completed for two more years, but a growing chorus of engineers and executives is already brainstorming about what to do with the ISS after its life span ends in 2015. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
James Oberg |
ISS Repair Space Walk: A Glimpse Into the Station's Future NASA is changing the way it handles hardware problems |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
William Sweet |
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers? |
Wired
September 2005 |
Trackback Firefox keeps it kosher... Minor threat, major PR stunt... Wiring the war zone... Accidental stem cell expert... North pole or bust... Baltimore Ravens go digital... Engines on the brain... Rotten ruling... |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2014
Ned Stafford |
Research on ice at British Antarctic base A power outage has halted research at the Halley Research Station in Antarctica and might not start again for the remainder of the Antarctic winter in order to conserve power for heating the station. |
Popular Mechanics
November 20, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled. |
AskMen.com
Terry Baldwin |
Top 10: Extreme Weather Destinations If your time off isn't complete without cheating death or at least talking tough from the relative safety of your barstool, here are 10 of the most extreme places on the globe. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Martian Pole Boasts Icy Detail A new map of Mars' south pole revealed that the ice cap is composed almost entirely of water ice and measures up to 3.7 kilometers thick. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
