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 ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

A team of international scientists has created a map revealing Antarctica's topography beneath its miles of ice after compiling more than 60 years of data. Newsweek reached out to British Antarctic ...

Bedmap3 reveals new insights into the topography of Antarctica. Credit: Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice ...

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 ...

As climate change slowly strips Antarctica of its glistening white ice, the frozen continent is getting more and more green. New NASA imaged reveal how vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula ...

A member of the Lynch Lab with a group of penguins in Antarctica. Credit: The Lynch Lab If you’re lucky enough to visit Antarctica, you’ll probably aim to snag a classic photo—a colony of penguins, ...