Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned rapidly between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, then likely re-thickened ...

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

The Sentinel-1 data is averaged over the period 2014–2024. Regions shown on the map include the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island, as well as large parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and ...

A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean over previous glacial cycles, but not in the way ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well as tens of thousands of smaller hills and valleys, with comparative ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well ...