Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world ... five Australians now live. East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice ...

Tendrils of ice-covered brine, or brinicles, leak from sea ice near East Antarctica’s Dumont ... story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the morning, when ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives ... more than 20,000 square miles, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

For award-winning National Geographic nature photographer Michaela Skovranova, shooting in Antarctica is one of the world’s greatest photographic assignments. As part of the OPPO Uncover ...

Antarctica Special Report See how scientists on Antarctica’s icy surface are tracking the continent’s meltdown, which could raise sea levels dramatically and cause a global crisis. Also, visit ...

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