May 18, 2017

The New York Times Takes You On and Below Antarctica’s Ice


Today The New York Times published a series of VR films taking viewers to Antarctica to understand how changes to its vast ice sheet might affect the world. We also simultaneously published a 3-part series of stories with interactive maps that shows why scientists are concerned that Antarctica’s ice sheet may have entered the early stages of an unstoppable disintegration.

The VR films take you under the ice, in a helicopter, onto a research station and in a cargo plane:

  • Under a Cracked Sky: Dive under eight feet of sea ice to swim with seals, explore ice caves and float above a dark seabed crawling with life.
  • Three Six Juliet:  Fly in a helicopter through the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
  • McMurdo Station: What does it take to run a research station on the least habitable continent, thousands of miles from civilization?

