Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys is one of the few environments on Earth where living organisms are dramatically affected by minor changes in climate. The first effects of climate change in Antarctica ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 3 (2015), pp. 977-991 (15 pages) We compared the spatial distribution and diversity of autotrophic microbial communities among four permanently ice-covered, ...

In a study spanning two decades, a team of researchers led by Colorado State University found declining numbers of soil fauna, nematodes and other animal species in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2014), pp. 811-826 (16 pages) The water of the ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys is derived primarily from glacial melt streams and to a lesser ...

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica (MDV), streams are an important source of water and hydrologic connectivity between glaciers and lakes across the valleys, however, these streams only run for ...

Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a ...

Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Lake Vanda in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) are a cold desert region of Antarctica supporting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that host microbial food webs, with few species of primitive animals (like ...

image: Tsoil biologist Byron Adams adjusts a bundt pan filled with marbles that catches blowing dirt along the shore of Lake Hoare. Byron Adams made his way up a slope in the McMurdo Dry Valleys ...

New research definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those that reconstructed past conditions on land. The ...

An animated gif showing the banks of Alph Lake, McMurdo Dry Valleys, in 2001 and 2014. The walls of the lake are collapsing and the channel feeding it is getting much deeper and wider as warm water ...

The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe. When asked what this water might be like, NASA scientist Chris McKay ...