The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are some of the most extreme desert regions on the planet. But new research indicates that the region may actually be full of salty, extremely cold groundwater.

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are some of the most extreme desert regions on the planet. But new research indicates that the region may actually be full of salty, extremely cold groundwater.

T he McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica live up to their name. The region is one of the driest places on Earth—mountains form a wall around the valleys and prevent melting glacier water from ...

Antarctica's Dry Valleys are home to the oldest ice on Earth. The first signs of the massive thaw disturbing the Arctic's frozen ground have now appeared in one of these valleys, melting a glacier ...

Change, Ms. McKnight says, comes very slowly around F6, one of four field camps in the Dry Valleys just west of McMurdo Station, the main U.S. research base in Antarctica. And that is very helpful ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Studies of the unique landscape in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica provide new insights into the origin of similar features on Mars and provide one line of evidence that suggests ...

Title image: The dry valleys of Antarctica form the coldest, driest, and windiest ecosystems known. (Credit: Michael Gooseff/CU Boulder) Summer 2024 is on track to be the hottest on record for ...

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...

What does it look like? You know, what kind of sensory experience is Antarctica when you do finally get there? So, one thing I will say it's different, the dry valleys especially, it's very ...

Power, graduate student Meredith Snyder, and Professor J.E. “Jeb” Barrett, in Taylor Valley, one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, in January 2023. Power and Snyder, along with Barrett ...

So when Virginia Tech biological sciences Professor J.E. "Jeb" Barrett learned of a March 2022 day in the McMurdo Dry Valleys that the thermometer rocketed to more than 70°F above its average, he ...