Contrary to its ice-laden appearance, Antarctica is indeed classified as a desert. It might seem like snow-covered expanses betray this classification, but they do not. The continent receives less ...

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

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Antarctica, the coldest, windiest continent on Earth and the least inhabited. One clip introduces us to the idea of glaciers as rivers of ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than ... of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the continent. What Bedmap3 is showing us is we have got a slightly ...

The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica and lay claim, but no one owns it.

06.03.2025 Antarctica’s natural environment and international governance arrangements are both unique. This frigid region, containing the Antarctic continent and surrounding Southern Ocean ...

A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds ...

Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen continent looks like beneath ...

The new map of Antarctica's topography beneath the ice gives scientists a better look at how the continent might respond to global warming. Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed ...

In my last column, I wrote about whether Antarctica should be granted legal personhood. Whether, in a world that only listens to those with (legal) standing, giving the continent a voice might be ...

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.