The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

Traces of Chilean and British bases appear just as humbled.On the surface, Deception Island's Whalers Bay is still humanity's ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3 ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of ...

More than two hundred days of successful drilling and ice core processing operations occurred across four field seasons, and in the harsh environment of the central Antarctic plateau. At an ...

THE world’s strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published this month that warned of “severe” climate consequences.

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 190 feet, so ...

Ice cores preserve air bubbles which ... who work from the SANAE IV base in Antarctica, often spend weeks in the field collecting samples. They travel significant distances via snowmobile and ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer ...