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

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

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

The map gives us a remarkably clear ... As global temperatures rise, Antarctic ice will gradually start to loosen and fall into the ocean. With Bedmap3 as a guide, researchers can determine ...

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and ...

The new map of Antarctica's topography beneath the ice ... This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that's occurring at the fringes of the continent.

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Called Bedmap3, the model is the most detailed and accurate map of the Antarctic continent ever completed ... quickly thanks to incursions of warm ocean water. Thanks to this latest research ...

As the maps show, there's been a great ice loss all around Antarctica, but there are some ... Without this ice cover, dark patches of ocean are exposed instead, which absorbs sunlight rather ...

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

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the ...