Antarctica's Dry Valleys are home to the oldest ice on Earth, and one of them is melting. In the past few years, a giant ice cliff emerged.

A helicopter flies a transmitter across Lake Frxyell, Antarctica. (Image credit: L. Jansan) The researchers found liquid water underneath the icy soil in Taylor Valley, stretching from the coast ...

It’s easy to forget that Antarctica is a desert, ... At the end of Taylor Glacier, which spills into one of the Dry Valleys (Taylor Valley, actually), a mysterious red trickle of salty, ...

The underside of Antarctica’s dry valleys isn’t so dry after all. Researchers have discovered extensive saltwater basins more than 100 meters beneath the permafrost, glaciers and frozen lakes ...

One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would expect to find a waterfall, but in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley, a five-story fall pours slowly out of the Taylor ...

What’s Lurking Under Antarctica’s Dry Valleys? Thursday, 22 December 2022, 11:55 am ... Antarctica’s permafrost is made up of frozen sediment beneath the valley floors.

Our trip to the Dry Valleys was perhaps the most anticipated part of the whole Antarctica trip for me— for personal reasons. I wanted to cold weather camp in Antarctica.

Scientists collected data from the AEM sensor at Bull Pass in the Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (Photo by J. Mikucki) Beneath Antarctica's ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys lies a salty ...

Some of the coldest and driest permafrost soils on Earth are located in the high-elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) of Antarctica, but little is known about the permafrost microbial communities ...

One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would expect to find a waterfall, but in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley, a five-story fall pours slowly out of the Taylor ...

Scientists collected data from the AEM sensor at Bull Pass in the Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (Photo by J. Mikucki) Beneath Antarctica’s ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys lies a salty ...