"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

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

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

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

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

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.

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

all the bumps, will determine where the syrup goes and how fast,” explained Dr. Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at BAS. “And ...

all the bumps, will determine where the syrup goes and how fast. And so it is with Antarctica: some ridges will hold up the flowing ice; the hollows and smooth bits are where that ice could ...