Stories by Kristel Tjandra

Kristel is a staff writer at Live Science. She holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a master's degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News, Science, Eos and Mongabay, among other outlets. She received the 2022 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications.

A section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with mountains is viewed from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on October 28, 2016.

GeologyJune 25, 2024

Ancient River System Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles

Kristel Tjandra, LiveScience