Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.
The team used satellite imagery, computer modeling, and an array of different methods to map the ice sheets and glacial flows ...
"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography ...
An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...
The clock is ticking. But low clouds have prevented helicopters from moving scientists and gear onto the continent’s ...
Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...
A, one of the largest and longest-lived Antarctic icebergs, is now covered in bright blue meltwater and breaking apart.
The biology of Antarctic species is very different; warm things up by just a degree or so, and they could emerge into a very ...
Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...
In Antarctica, things can change in a heartbeat. Our ship was approaching the Lemaire Channel, nicknamed “Kodak Alley” for ...
The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 ...