First map of vegetation across Antarctica reveals a battle for the continent's changing landscape. Story by Claudia Colesie • 5mo. A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand.

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3.It has incorporated data from ships ...

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 ...

Earlier maps placed the thickest ice in the Astrolabe Basin In Adelie Land. Here’s why this new map is critical: It will help researchers figure out how Antarctica might respond to warming ...

Bedmap3 reveals new insights into the topography of Antarctica. Credit: Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

Chrissie: Well, Antarctica is way down in the middle of the Southern Ocean, so we’ll need a map that’s looking right down on it. Freya: Ah, that’s better, it looks loads bigger than the UK!

Antarctica has an average temperature of -30˚C but it can reach -60˚C in the coldest parts of the year. In the summer it is light for 24 hours of the day and in the winter months it is always dark.

Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before Latest in Opinion In 2025, Tornado Alley has become almost everything east of the Rockies — and it's been a ...

This map will also be important for future expeditions to Antarctica, with a better knowledge of the field to be explored on these trips. Science - English World News ...

Antarctica is warming at a rate so rapid that the frozen region’s green vegetation has grown tenfold in the past four decades, according to a concerning new report in the journal “Nature ...