Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest climate change. Its melting ice could contribute up to 5 meters of sea-level rise . Where the ice disappears, it leaves barren ground behind.

An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life The Bedmap3 survey is bringing the polar continent into focus, which could help detect life on icy moons ...

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.

The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Drawing a question mark over parts of the map, he explains that large areas of Antarctica are still unmapped because no-one has ever been able to get there. "You can see the mountain ridge under ...

Scientists have solved part of a longstanding mystery on how a gigantic hole in Antarctica's sea ice formed. Scientists first discovered the mysterious hole, known as a polynya, in the 1970s.

An April 13 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows images of weather maps with a large dark shape that grows larger and moves north toward southwestern Africa. "Did anyone hear about ...

1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled. ... Climate and weather patterns across the world are driven by the immense large ice masses on the Antarctic continent.