A five-nation scientific team has published new evidence that even a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, one of the gases that drives global warming, affects the stability of ...

McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Nov. 28, 2007 -- A second season in Antarctica for the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program has exceeded all expectations, according to the co-chief scientists ...

It is a great privilege to be here tonight, in the presence of so many talented, hard working people. The conclusion of the Andrill project is a massive achievement, something that you can all be very ...

(Phys.org) —Using a camera-equipped robot to explore beneath the Ross Ice Shelf off Antarctica, scientists and engineers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program made an astonishing ...

The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program drilled to a new record depth of 1,000 meters below the seafloor from the site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica on Dec. 16, ...

Antarctica is the planet's southernmost continent where the geographic South Pole is located and is home to some 1,000 scientists attempting to understand more about the history of Earth and the ...

Researchers have finally drilled through half a mile of ice to reach a grounding zone where ice, sea and land in the Antarctic meet. Sampling underneath the ice reveals an unexpected population of ...

This is a guest post composed by Dr. Frank Rack (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) as part of the NSF “Science: Becoming the Messenger” workshop held in Lincoln, NE on March 9, 2011. The exercise here ...

Edwardsiella andrillae anemones protrude from the bottom surface of the Ross Ice Shelf. They glow in the camera's light. Scientists with University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Antarctic exploration team ...

ANDRILL’s predecessor, the Cape Roberts Project in the late 1990s, drilled core that represents the period from 17 million to 40 million years ago. The geological target this year is the past 17 ...