What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice.But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Antarctica has always been a place of mystery, with its icy surface concealing an entire world beneath. Scientists have long ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Peter Fretwell, mapping specialist and co-author at BAS, said it had become clear that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than scientists originally thought and has a larger volume of ice that is ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

The project began in 2001, but the researchers involved say the new map represents a dramatic refinement using 82 million data points. That data includes recent surveys in East Antarctica ...