But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica ... rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below the ice we've ever had.

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

Antarctic’s ice extent on March 1 tied for the second-lowest minimum observed in the satellite record. Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its ... sea ice coverage dropped to 1.98 ...

Throughout Antarctica, sea ice cover is very low this year – a reminder of the serious and unprecedented changes to Earth's climate happening all around us.' The new maps and data published ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

After that, things got weird. They captured the first detailed maps of a glacier’s underside, revealing vital clues about future sea level rise. They programmed ‘Ran’ to dive into the Dotson ice shelf ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

Despite all its ice, Antarctica is actually a desert because so little moisture falls from the sky. The inner regions of the continent receive an average of 2 inches (5 centimeters) of ...

Scientists have found a massive 315-mile-wide anomaly beneath East Antarctica. It could be the biggest impact crater ever discovered buried under 1.6 kilometers of ice.