The biggest ice-and-snow-free region in Antarctica is a desert known as the McMurdo Dry Valleys. These valleys have very low humidity and a substantial lack of precipitation. Data suggests that ...

Approximately 0.3% of Antarctica is perpetually ice free, with the largest single area being the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land. These glacially carved valleys are thought to be some of the ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences. As Totten Glacier oozes off the ...

Many people think of deserts like the Sahara, but Antarctica receives even less precipitation. Some parts of it, like the McMurdo Dry Valleys, have not seen rain for millions of years. Even though ...

The newest exhibit in the CU Museum of Natural History’s BioLounge takes a deep dive into the Earth’s southernmost continent, beyond the ice, to the ancient Dry Valleys—where CU conducts world-class ...

The book tells the true story of one seal’s travels in an Antarctic desert provides an engaging framework to convey how different Antarctica and the Dry Valleys are from the environments with which ...

Morgan-Kiss and her collaborators are in the second year of a six-year grant to investigate the ecosystems of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a polar desert on the coast of east Antarctica. The McMurdo Long ...

Tracking data from Garwood Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, Joseph Levy, a research associate at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, shows that ...