Bordering the southern Weddell Sea, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is Antarctica’s largest ice shelf after the Ross Ice Shelf. Its cold, dense, and salty waters gush upstream into the ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

A forgotten set of photos taken by a U.S. Navy plane in 1966 has recently become the key to unlocking some crucial insights ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

Clues to future sea level rise have been revealed by the first detailed maps of the underside of a floating ice shelf in Antarctica. An international research team deployed an unmanned submersible ...

The paper presents a unique dataset based on the vast archives of old aerial images combined with modern satellite observations, which, for the first time, shows the collapse of an ice shelf as a ...

The first detailed maps from underneath an ice shelf in Antarctica have revealed previously unknown shapes and melting patterns.

Their destination was the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, a floating ice sheet about 10 times the size of Switzerland.

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 ...

Map of Antarctica showing the ice shelves along its coastline. The paper, “ Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion, ” indicates that the ice sheets are ...