Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

Scientists have uncovered an ancient landscape beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing a past environment with rivers and forests that existed between 14 and 34 million years ago. Using satellite data and ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. ... Buried under 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice, ... Exposing the Secrets of a Hidden Land.

However, under a very high emissions scenario, the team found that rebounding land led Antarctica to contribute an additional 0.8 metres to sea level rise by 2500.

Huge breakthrough as ancient lost world discovered under ice in Antarctica Scientists used ice-penetrating radar to discover the hidden land deep below Antarctica's ice sheet.

There are ancient hills and valleys preserved under a thick layer of ice in Antarctica. The frozen continent used to look very different.

Ice sheets are masses of glacial land ice extending more than 20,000 square miles, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said. There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and ...

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.

But if you've ever wondered what the land underneath Antarctica’s ice—the largest ice sheet on Earth—actually looks like, NASA and the British Antarctic Survey have the answer.

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years.

The paper aims to galvanize global efforts to sustainably manage land ahead of a summit of 200 nations this week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, under the UN convention on combating desertification (UNCCD).