Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

over the last two years Antarctica’s ice sheet has increased in height. In a press release ESA announced that the measurements from their 2010-2011 campaigns show the height of Antarctic ice to ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Ice shelves surround most of Antarctica and the largest, the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf, is the size of Spain. The ice shelves that encircle Antarctica serve a very important role in holding back ...

While that scenario is extreme, it shows how much water is stored in Antarctica ... water frozen in ice sheets. Losing ice sheets creates a negative feedback loop. Ice sheets, shelves and glaciers ...

The new map is color coded to show the height of Antarctica's bedrock above ... the shape of the ice sheet and ice shelves that float around the fringes of the continent. —1st map of ...

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

Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

The map also includes a new classification of Antarctica’s ice. In addition to distinguishing between grounded ice (which ...

especially West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, vastly outweigh gains in the interior. Thwaites and Crosson ice shelves (seen just below the peninsula) have thinned the most. The two ice ...