A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

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Oceanographers are using data collected by elephant seals to improve their map of the seafloor on Antarctica’s continental shelf. The new map results from a collaboration between Daniel Costa, a ...

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When you first see Antarctica on a globe, it looks like a smooth sheet of ice pressed against the bottom of the planet. But the rugged continent buried underneath is filled with sights that no one has ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

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A map depicting a flat Earth surrounded by rings of ice walls from an online art forum is being taken by some social media users as evidence the planet is flat. The illustration depicts the continents ...

Sea levels are rising steadily each year as the planet warms. Melting ice could collapse suddenly, raising sea levels abruptly. These melting glaciers and ice sheets are the ones scientists are ...

A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current — an ocean current that flows clockwise around Antarctica. When you ...