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 ...

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.

BedMachine Antarctica. Map showing the land under Antarctica's ice. Mathieu Morlighem / UCI. Scientists knew this large glacier in East Antarctica had a trough beneath it, but they had no idea how ...

The deepest point of Earth's continents has been identified in Queen Mary Land, East Antarctica. The canyon buried under the ice of the Denman Glacier reaches 11,500 feet (3.5 kilometers) below ...

Just when scientists thought they'd mapped out some of the lowest, deepest land found on Earth, a brand new map has changed everything. A new NASA creation, the BedMachine Antarctica map, has ...

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 ...

Scientists also value Antarctica because it is a land without borders. Under an international treaty, Antarctica is open to all, and scientific findings are shared.

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 ...

In order to see Antarctica's resident land animals, you have to have a microscope. And one look reveals an outlandish cast of characters more suited to Lewis Carroll's fiction than a Disney movie ...

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.