Paul VoosenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The coronavirus pandemic had already canceled one summer field research season.
Now it has come for another: the Antarctic summer. The National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) announced this week that the United States and United Kingdom would put most of their planned Antarctic research into deep freeze, including their ambitious joint campaign to study Thwaites Glacier, the Antarctic ice sheet most at risk of near-term melting.So far, efforts to prevent the novel coronavirus from infecting staff at the three U.S.
stations and three U.K. stations on the continent have been successful. The highest priority for the agencies for the coming.