So it's crucial to understand how much subglacial water is generated and where it goes, as well as its effect on ice flow and ...

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

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

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

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.

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 ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

Subglacial water beneath Antarctica plays a far greater role in ice loss than previously accounted for in climate ...

Bedmap3 uncovers fresh details of Antarctica’s hidden landscape ... the computer models we use to investigate how the ice will flow across the continent as temperatures rise,” Hamish Pritchard ...

Tyler Pelle and Christine Dow suggest that water flowing beneath the ice in the Antarctic today may not be reflective of how it might flow in the future. Over the past several decades, scientists ...