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

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface ... and gold-spewing volcanoes. This ...

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

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Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals.

The British Antarctic Survey led the study and the results were published in the journal Scientific Data. As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock ...