#British Antarctic Survey

Author: Katie Thornton / Source: Atlas Obscura In July of 2018, Lewis Georgiades ran out of mayonnaise. The British chef has cooked everywhere from small, family-run establishments to Michelin star restaurants in France. He knows how to problem-solve. At any other kitchen, Georgiades might have

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Just a few powerful storms in Antarctica can have an outsized effect on how much snow parts of the southernmost continent get. Those ephemeral storms, preserved in ice cores, might give a skewed view of how quickly the continent’s ice sheet has

Author: Shaena Montanari / Source: Atlas Obscura Down in the notoriously vulnerable ice sheet of West Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier seems to be breaking up faster than ever, and it’s looking like 2019 might be another busy year. The ice shelf calved major icebergs in 2013, 2015, 2017, and

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Maybe the fourth time’s the charm. On February 9, an international team of scientists is embarking on yet another mission to hunt for ocean life that may have once dwelled in the shadow of a giant iceberg (SN Online: 10/13/17). The scientists, led

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Once destined for Mars, a prototype drill has a new mission: To bore into rocks buried deep beneath the ice in Antarctica. In early January, researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland took a modified version of their Martian drill to