"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

So could this map also be a chilling look at Antarctica’s future under a worst-case scenario ... This puts the ice at greater ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

As the maps show, there's been a great ice loss all around Antarctica, but there are some ... Without this ice cover, dark patches of ocean are exposed instead, which absorbs sunlight rather ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives ... ice shelves that push out over the ocean at the continent’s margin," the BAS ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ...

And so it is with Antarctica: some ridges will hold ... the floating ice shelves that push out over the ocean at the continent's margin. The map also records a comprehensive new, continent-wide ...