From expeditioners perishing in an
Antarctic icescape to World War II fighter planes exploding over Britain, dire situations can lead to crucial medical advances.
Antarctica is a land like no other, a place of
ethereal icescapes and breathtaking scenery; narrow waterways, glaciers, icebergs, rugged mountains and abundant wildlife
The constellations of Orion, Taurus, and the Pleiades illuminate an ethereal
icescape in Nagano, Japan (winner of the «Earth and Space» category).
The best scientific payoffs require venturing to the harshest environments, where blistering volcanoes or
subarctic icescapes could instantly transform multimillion - dollar machines into scrap metal.
Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University's campus, five mural - sized photographs of
polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades.
But this scene is a mess: Cryoconite cones have coalesced into cruddy puddles and basins, while a robust river, a few meters across, gushes across the
dirty icescape.
By the time we make our second trip to Lake Mercer,
the icescape feels as familiar to me as the hills of Northern California.
In 2010, an iceberg about the size of Rhode Island collided with Antarctica's Mertz Glacier Tongue, carving out a more - than -1,000-square-mile piece and reshaping
the icescape of the George V / Adelie Land Coast, where the AABW observed in this study is thought to form.
The project, called Impacts of Climate Change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or
ICESCAPE, aims to find out how warming temperatures are affecting the biochemistry and ecology of the Arctic seas.
It's terrific to be able to view the whole of Matthew Barney's Cremaster series in one gallery, that Ring Cycle of phantasmagorical films shot on 35 mm in the blinding white salt flats of Utah, in Canada, Japan and
the icescapes of Alaska, with its outlandish cast of performers including Richard Serra, Björk and Norman Mailer.
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of
their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies for some mid-mission fixes dropped by parachute from a C - 130 in the Arctic Ocean in this July 12, 2011 NASA handout photo.
The project, called Impacts of Climate Change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or
ICESCAPE, aims to find out how warming temperatures are affecting the biochemistry and ecology of the Arctic seas.
But they also felt a sense of wonder at the transformation of
the icescape, McQuaid says.