Known as Bedmap3, the map incorporates more than six decades of survey data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and even dog-drawn sleds. The outline of deep valleys is better represented in the ...

A 'vulnerable Antarctica' Scientists said the map revealed that the ice sheet is at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the continent.

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.

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 ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica, has exceptionally cold temperatures. However, you might not know the scope of the continent's frigidity. Antarctica is one of ...

The outline of the supposed Antarctic depiction more closely resembles the physical land of the Antarctic continent than it does the ice pack, which stretches out into ... In addition to an unfrozen ...

To study the rapidly changing ecosystems of Antarctica, researchers have recently created the first continent-wide map of its plant life. You might expect the color palette of Antarctica to be ...

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 ...

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a "veritable Shangri-La", said The Economist, "untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome". While Britain, Argentina, Australia ...

The map shows a clear view of the icy continent, as though its 27 million cubic km of ice had been removed, revealing unseen hidden locations of the tallest mountains and the deepest canyons.

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a "veritable Shangri-La", said The Economist, "untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome".