If the sheets of ice that sit on ... the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — for the next 1,000 years. The more complex approach would be to build an actual wall underneath the glacier ...

They form part of the West Antarctic Rift System, a tectonically dynamic region, where the interplay between Earth’s crust and magma is tightly bound to the overlying weight of ice. Recent ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3 ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

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.