The authors behind that study attempted to find such old ice, taking a “debris-rich ice core” measuring 944 centimeters (372 inches) in length from the Ong Valley, located in the Transantarctic ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng Tianlu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has ...

First detected in 1958 by a Soviet expedition, these mountains are invisible to the naked eye, shrouded under the thickest ...

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and ...

East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), have developed a novel technique ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic ...

One of them, led by researchers at China’s Tongji University, finds that after years of ice sheet decline, Antarctica has seen a “surprising shift”: a record-breaking accumulation of ice.

In case of abuse, Report this post. For decades, the story from Antarctica has been bleak: relentless ice loss, glaciers retreating, and a continent that once seemed untouchable now a key driver ...

Antarctica is home to around 20 million breeding pairs of penguins, like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on ...

(via PBS Terra) If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, but new evidence suggests that West Antarctica - ...