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

For all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Now, a new model shows the hidden continent beneath ...

There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. They contain more than 99% of the land ice on Earth. The huge size of ... floating ice shelves that push ...

The Antarctic ice sheet, Earth's largest ice mass and nearly twice the size of Australia ... The researchers focused on five of Antarctica's ice shelves—floating platforms of ice that extend ...

Incredible images from the NASA Earth Observatory show A-84 'calving' from the George VI Ice Shelf along the Antarctic coastline. The new berg was 'born' in mid-January and measures about ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ... If the ice cap growth keeps pace with loss at the edges, then it remains in balance and stays the same size.

A previously hidden under-sea ecosystem has been revealed after an iceberg broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive glacier on the Antarctic ... "Therefore, the size of this specimen ...

“During the last year the ice shelf has lost about 1,800 square kilometres or about 14% of its size.” Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted sno ...