Polar News and Notes Science

More than 34 million years ago, glaciers were creating the Gamburtsev mountains in Antarctica as well as the ice sheet that now covers the continent.
Radar images suggest to an international team that glaciers expanded, retracted, and flowed downstream, creating high altitude hollows, or cirques, hanging valleys, and the main valley through the mountain range, […]

The conveyor belt has long served as a metaphor for the movement of ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean. The belt depicts a continuous loop of southbound subsurface cold water and a northbound flow of warm water on the surface. That loop, part of what is called the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, has a powerful […]

When the headlines announce a new finding about the state of our planet’s well-being, chances are good that the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be mentioned in the story as a funding source for some or all of the research. The extent of NSF’s involvement in climate research is reported in a new publication titled Climate […]

The world’s largest and most biologically diverse lake faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change. Lake Baikal in Siberia has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because a high proportion of its fauna and flora is found nowhere else. 
U.S. and Russian scientists have studied the modern-day stresses […]

I had the pleasure of talking to Tom Lewis —musician, seasoned naval crewman, and grand storyteller who travels to Europe, Canada and the United States sharing his songs about the sea.
In preparation for our May 2009 podcast, I was looking at the Ocean Literacy Network website. This network consists of […]