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

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner.

a clue that may help explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than predicted. "The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we're trying to ask here is ...

But, slowing currents will come with consequences on land and in the ocean ... open image in gallery Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, according to researchers.

NOW, SCIENTISTS JUST HOPE THE NAME ISN’T PROPHETIC. A LAND OF ICE MELTING AWAY, INCREASINGLY EXPOSED AS GREEN. THE ARCTIC IS THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE FOR FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND PARTICULARLY ...

Melting of the ice sheet is only one factor that affects ... This indicates that there is potential for even faster land uplift in the future as melting in Greenland accelerates.

(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Inhabited by Inuits on and off for almost 4,500 years, the island was originally dubbed 'Green land' by ... shown that the melting of Greenland's ice sheet has picked ...

“On the west coast of Green­land, around a tenth of the ice melt is already caused by these mi­cro­scopic in­hab­it­ants. In some cases, they darken the gla­cier sur­face so much that is even vis­ible ...