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

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

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

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

The map gives us a clear view of the white continent ... along the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic coastlines, and in the Transantarctic Mountains. The outline of deep valleys is better ...

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

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

West Antarctic coastlines and the Transantarctic Mountains. Dr Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at BAS and lead author on the study detailing the new map, added: “This is the fundamental ...

They map the gravity, topography ... He further warned this could be followed by accelerating ice loss in West Antarctica. Airborne radio-echo sounding surveys, which penetrate the ice to its ...

This more refined map has double the data points of the previous version, and these 82 million points have been rendered in three dimensions. We now know far more about areas around the South Pole, ...