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

So could this map also be a chilling look at Antarctica’s future under a worst ... This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring ...

As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of Antarctica produced by a group ... and the cycle of freezing and melting at the base of the ice controls changes in water, sediment and ...

Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...

WASHINGTON — The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.