Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and contours and is available to everyone from tourists to researchers to the ...

A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

From above, Antarctica looks simple. Just a massive white continent at the bottom of the world. Endless ice. Endless cold. For centuries, explorers and ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might affect sea-level rise ...

Researchers have published the most complete map of Antarctica’s subglacial bedrock using Ice Flow Perturbation Analysis (IFPA), revealing thousands of unseen hills and ridges in the Maud Subglacial ...

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our oceans.

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...