Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

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

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

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic ...

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath ... Total volume of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 27.17 million cu km Total area of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 13.63 million ...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) The new research also reveals, in unprecedented detail, the shape of the ice sheet and ice shelves that float around the fringes of the continent. —1st map of ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives ... and the thickness of the floating ice shelves that push out over the ocean at ...

In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...

As the maps show, there's been a great ice loss all around Antarctica, but there are some ... In contrast, icebergs, glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves all originate on land.

The British Antarctic Survey have released the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet ...