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

Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

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 ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

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

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ...

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

So could this map also be a chilling look at Antarctica’s future under a worst-case scenario ... and has a larger volume of ice that is grounded on a rock bed sitting below sea level. This puts the ...

Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear ... ice sheet losses accounted for roughly a third of mean sea level rise. The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages ...

Dehradun: Antarctica's summer sea ice extent, defined as the area with at least 15% ice concentration, recorded its ...

Antarctica is the toughest of all the continents to map because almost its entire land ... which would cause global sea levels to rise 190 ft (58 m). Even odder, the ice cap weighs a staggering ...