Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.

D eep within Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountains, a pyramid-shaped peak has intrigued scientists and conspiracy theorists alike. With its four steep, symmetrical sides, the mountain looks eerily ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Bedmap3 closes many of these gaps, creating a detailed picture of what lies beneath, including deeper valleys and higher mountains than previously thought. Related Stories ・Pyramid hidden for ...

The British Antarctic Survey have released the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet ...

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

Human beings typically do our worst environmental damage in the places we live and work—clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains. Antarctica, however, was more or less out of reach.

Chrissie: Well Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world, so maybe he sheltered near those big mountains that run down the middle. Let’s visit that one, Vinson Massif!