The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

Can you tell what's wrong with this picture of the North Pole? This brain teaser will primarily test your attention to detail ...

So some recommend users start blurring their homes on Street View, a service of Google Maps, to reduce their risk of becoming ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

This map is a Spilhaus projection, showing the world's seas and oceans as a single body of water, centred on Antarctica and ...

Experts decoded the mysterious sounds coming from Antarctica’s icy waters, and the results are pretty wild. It turns out, ...

More information: Huw J. Horgan et al, A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01687-3 ...

In Brief Researchers have, for the first time, directly observed the flow of water beneath the ice of West Antarctica. They drilled a 500-metre-deep hole through the Antarctic ice sheet until they ...

The first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica will help scientists to track future sea-level increases, according to the team behind the project.

From Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica (by Pritchard, H., et al. ) As we better map isolated and icy areas on Earth, these findings also help inform ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' worth of technology to take a peek.

The map, called Bedmap3, gives a clear view of the towering mountains and deep canyons hidden by the ice sheets. It was compiled using more than 60 years of data from planes, satellites, ships and ...