The map will be used to better understand the past and future evolution of the Antarctic ice sheets – a crucial issue when considering how climate change will further impact this icy giant.

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 — ...

The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's ... Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below ...

Through satellite gravimetry analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) mass changes from 2002 to 2023, striking mass change rates ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

However, Antarctic ... 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 ...