Climate and weather patterns across the world are driven by the ... recent research mapping vegetation in Antarctica. She points out that these new maps provide key information on a scale which ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of Antarctica produced by a group ... But it won’t arrive until 2031 and that’s only one icy world that could be home to life — most ...

A lost ancient world, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been discovered under a mile of ice in Antarctica.

Antarctica is the toughest of all the continents to map because almost its entire land ... cap of ice that contains 70% of the entire world's supply of fresh water. With an average thickness ...

Using satellite images to survey colonies across the Antarctic Peninsula, the Weddell Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea, BAS ...

To study the rapidly changing ecosystems of Antarctica, researchers have recently created the first continent-wide map of its plant life. You might expect the color palette of Antarctica to be ...

The British Antarctic Survey led the study and the results were published in the journal Scientific Data. As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock ...