Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are a massive mountain belt that spans Antarctica, separating the eastern part of the ...

Tourist footage captured on Wednesday (July 2) showed a huge plume of smoke rising from a wildfire in Ferma, Crete, in Greece ...

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 ...

This ice measures 4,757 meters—over 15 times the height of the Shard in the UK. The new map, Bedmap3, is crucial for studying how the ice sheet interacts with the bedrock and helping scientists ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The map also records a comprehensive new, continent wide view of grounding lines – the places where ice at the edge of the continent meets the ocean and begins to float. The landscape of the rock bed ...