A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice removed.

Warmer temperatures are melting the glaciers and the ... of the recent research mapping vegetation in Antarctica. She points out that these new maps provide key information on a scale which ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...

A new map shows the Antarctic ... This increases the risk of more ice melting due to the intrusion of warmer ocean water. Bedmap3 shows us that Antarctica is somewhat more vulnerable than we ...

Antarctica is losing about 136 billion tonnes of ice per year, with Greenland almost double that, at 267 billion tonnes, says NASA. These two ice sheets hold two thirds of the freshwater on Earth, and ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been ... This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that's occurring ...

“East Antarctica is not as protected from change as we use to think,” he said. The melt rate of glaciers in the fastest-melting part of Antarctica has tripled over the past decade, analysis of ...

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.

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 ...