Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other.

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt extent dropped to nearly zero or below average from February 1 to March 15 ...

The Weather Channel New Map Gives Stunning Look At What’s Under Antarctica’s Ice Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025 In a newly published study, a group of scientists led by ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve ... the real record-holder is in an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, where ice piles up to 4,757 metres. To compile the map the ...

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Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles longcracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

The startling allegations were first made in an email sent by one of the researchers working at the South African National Antarctic Expedition base (SANAE IV) in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land.

as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the thickest ice in Antarctica. An unnamed canyon on Wilkes Land hosts ice which is a ...

Antarctica is more vulnerable than previously thought it has emerged, after the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath its ... thickest overlying ice was Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land, but a ...

As a WSJ analysis of government land maps and housing shortage data from the National Association of Realtors explained, only 7.3% of all federal land, about 47 million acres, is within metro ...