The land underneath the East Antarctic ice sheet is less well-known than the surface of Mars,” said Durham University Professor Stewart Jamieson, summing up the deep mystery that has only just started ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

Scientists have verified Ice Age footprints in White Sands National Park, showing humans lived in North America during the ...

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Antarctica, the coldest and most remote continent on Earth, is mostly covered by massive ice sheets that can be several kilometers thick. But what lies beneath all that ice? This video takes you on an ...

Several major U.S. cities could be impacted if the Thwaites Glacier were to melt, according to NOAA projections.

On that map, some of the more isolated areas had a ... and anticipates using this information for ice sheet modeling, geology and better simulations of how the environment used to behave in ...

and even researchers crossing the ice sheet on dog sleds. The map gives us a remarkably clear view of the bed, including frozen mountains and canyons. Besides generally interesting in its own ...

The map, called Bedmap3, gives a clear view of the towering mountains and deep canyons hidden by the ice sheets. It was compiled using more than 60 years of data from planes, satellites ...

Creative Commons. The researchers used radar, seismic and gravity measurements to map the bedrock and estimate the thickness of the ice sheet above it. Against their expectations, they found that ...