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.

Antarctica Special Report See how scientists on Antarctica’s icy surface are tracking the continent’s meltdown, which could raise sea levels dramatically and cause a global crisis. Also, visit ...

Antarctica was first sighted by humans just 200 years ago. Conditions are so ferocious that no human lives there permanently; instead, scientists go for few months at a time, living in specialist ...