the ice sheet in West Antarctica was smaller than it is today. That allowed seawater to deposit nutrients in what is now a lake bed buried under hundreds of meters of ice. This study is among the ...

Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...

Antarctica may be hiding a large lake under its ice – second only to Lake Vostok in size ­– according to data presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna this week.

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...

A team of British engineers is set to begin a journey to a lake hidden beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice. The explorers depart next week for Antarctica on the first stage of an ambitious ...

Researchers say a massive lake may lie under the surface of Antarctica's ice sheet, possibly harboring life forms that have spent millions of years in isolation. Looking at satellite images ...

Researchers exploring a buried Antarctic lake "twice the size of Manhattan ... the perfectly preserved skeletal remains of tiny animals trapped under about a half-mile of ice, the journal Nature ...

buried under a 15-meter-deep lake located under 3,500 feet of Antarctica ice. The layered samples are the first of their kind collected on the massive continent. It took researchers two seasons to ...

OSLO (Reuters) – A British plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica’s ice in December could show the risks of quicker sea level rise caused by climate change, scientists said on ...

Furthermore, they found it in a place they least expected — living under an Antarctic frozen lake. Shutterstock Image While researching the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica, scientists ...