Their map pattern is very similar to ours although with a slightly higher number of melt days in all areas. Figure 1. The top left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet from ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt extent dropped to nearly zero or below average from February 1 to March 15 ...

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 ...

Hanne E F Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Dutch Research Council. Rebecca Kaiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

The startling allegations were first made in an email sent by one of the researchers working at the South African National Antarctic Expedition base (SANAE IV) in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land.

Currently, the main focus of research in the Antarctic revolves around climate change because the White Continent is a good barometer for changes in global cycles. It has a unique and fragile ...

Scientists have long sought to understand what lies below the vast ice sheet and, now, a new map offers the most detailed view yet. Known as Bedmap3, this remarkable project has been led by the ...

Languages: English. An old video shows the inside of the isolated Antarctic Sanae IV base where South African researchers pleaded for help over an allegedly violent colleague. In 2020, the South ...

The base sits on stilts near a cliff edge — a row of buildings that the team will remain in until December, the heart of the Antarctic summer, when a ship is set to depart from South Africa to ...

The South African scientist alleged to have assaulted and threatened a colleague at a remote Antarctic research station will receive psychological help and apologise to the victim, officials have ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.