Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke, revealing newly exposed seafloor and a previously inaccessible ecosystem ...

Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below the ice we've ever had. The product of a new study led by ...

Pulling sleds first across the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, and then across the Ross Ice Shelf, in pitch black darkness, and bitingly cold temperatures. Their goal was to collect some emperor penguin ...

Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very detailed map of everything beneath the millions ...

ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing an underwater world never before seen by humans.

When they leave the land and start to float, they are called ice shelves. The one closest to New Zealand's Scott Base is the largest: the Ross Ice Shelf. "It's about the size of France and completely ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

A team of scientists may have discovered dozens of new species, including giant sea spiders, octopi, and corals on the newly exposed seafloor left behind by the enormous A-84 iceberg that broke away ...

A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has assembled the most detailed landscape map beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet. The map, called Bedmap3, uses more than 60 ...