Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

Trees in this ancient forest faced challenges ... pyramid found peaking from below the ice in Antarctica Surprising prehistoric landscape discovered under two kilometers of Antarctic ice The ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... robots it shouldn't be hard to work under significant ice, he said, but it remains a serious ...

A variety of techniques, including radar, seismic reflection (sound waves), and gravity measurements, sense the landscape of the rock bed under Antarctica's ice. Subtracting this topography ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Off Antarctica, the biggest mystery isn’t centred on any particular creature but on the entire ecosystem: how exactly does that much life thrive under so much ice? In other parts of the ocean ...

If the sheets of ice that sit on top of Antarctica and Greenland were to ... building massive walls under the ice sheets to prevent them from falling apart. It would be a geoengineering effort ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.