When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape ...

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An unexpected and previously unknown topography beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves has come to light, courtesy of a ...

Which are the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica? This isolated continent is rarely visited, but still holds a lot of ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

New radar device will ultimately be used to measure thickness of ice sheets in similar environments such as Antarctica ...

NASA have accidentally rediscovered a Cold War-Era Base in Greenland. This rediscovery, rather than a new find, brings to ...

Antarctica is facing escalating challenges from climate change, including rapid transformations of the Antarctic ice sheet, ...

For 27 days, it travelled over 1,000km (621miles) back and forth under the Dotson Ice Shelf in West Antarctica ... New York," he says. "If you melt all the ice in Thwaites, you're going to ...

The fourth campaign of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project has begun in Antarctica. An international team of 16 scientists ...