A ntarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

A new map shows the Antarctic continent in greater detail than ever before. It should help us to better understand the ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia Island. Once lodged in the Southern Weddell Sea for decades, ...

Game of Thrones style ice wall runs aground near British island - The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice, known as A23a, ...

Meet Melanie Barker, a civil engineer and ICE Fellow, who has helped build some of London's ... the chance to literally change the country's landscape. "Look at any map of Britain," Melanie says.

One gigaton is equal to 1 billion metric tons, or 2.2 trillion pounds. "This loss of ice shelf mass has significant implications for ocean circulation due to the addition of freshwater ...

The University of Cambridge conducted research on the Ronne ice shelf, which is part of the larger WAIS. The team found that it was able to stay intact during even warmer periods in the planet's ...

These changes can be used to map changes in the volume of continental ice, or ice sheets – a key metric in studying Earth's past glaciation. With this information, the researchers created a detailed ...