This map of the Antarctic ice sheet was generated for Cape Town. The last factor involves the rotation of the planet itself. "You can think of the Earth as a spinning top," said Dr Larour.

I examine how large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Southern Ocean, including the coupling of low- and high-pressure systems, helps to drive warm and moist air masses onto the West Antarctic ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is a crucial bellwether for monitoring climate change. It holds around 8% of the planet's freshwater ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

The maps here show the world as it is now ... East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable.

The US space agency has regularly flown an instrumented plane back and forth across the ice sheet to map its internal layers and the shape of the bedrock. Liquid water has a telltale backscatter ...

The latest discovery used radar to map the surface of an ice sheet, its internal layers and the bedrock below, similar to the way that doctors use ultrasound to see inside the human body.

Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half of December and is continuing in the first few days ...