Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped Antarctica’sburied landscape in high resolution beneath the continent’s thick ice sheet. The results uncover geological features previously invisible to ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 meters up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic ...

Researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth's most remote and fragile continent. Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...

The Transantarctic Mountains, the longest non-compressional range in the world, border one side of the structure. (Matt Palmer/iStock/Getty Images Plus) At the world's southernmost reaches, the land ...

A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...