Geologists have found a prehistoric Antarctic landscape that existed for more than 34 million years under the ice sheet of ...
On a high, wind-scoured plateau of Antarctica, scientists have carved a small frozen vault into the ice and begun filling it ...
Far below the frozen surface of Antarctica, scientists are uncovering a landscape that looks less like a featureless ice cap and more like a buried continent, complete with mountains, valleys, rivers ...
Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...
An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...
The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet. Researchers led by ...