Cracking open a 117-year-old Antarctic milk time capsule
Powdered whole milk samples from Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 Nimrod expedition offer a glimpse into dairy’s evolution.
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Powdered whole milk samples from Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 Nimrod expedition offer a glimpse into dairy’s evolution.
An Iranian Navy commander announced a planned military base at the South Pole.
Hi. Apologies for the radio gap. It turns out that Trish, the co-PI and irresistible force behind this project met with an immovable ice patch and broke her femur a few days ago at the Willy Field airport on the Ross Ice Shelf. She’s “fine” now, and freshly bionic-ized with new hardware pinning together her skeleton. Oh, and we got the shot, out at the airport, while her femur was still in two parts (a shot of one of the C-130 planes framed similarly to a Ponting photograph of the Terra Nova at dock).
An Iranian Navy commander announced a planned military base at the South Pole.
An Iranian Navy commander announced a planned military base at the South Pole.