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 ...

Scientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, ...

I n the heart of Antarctica’s Victoria Land, hidden under 14 meters of thick ice, lies Lake Enigma, a body of water long believed to be entirely frozen.Now, scientists have discovered that this ...

A Russian team drilling toward Lake Vostok, a pristine freshwater lake buried 3,750 meters under the Antarctic ice had to conclude its task and will have to wait for the next season to finish off ...

Around 90 per cent of Antarctica is buried under thick ice. The average depth of this layer is nearly 2.2 kilometres.

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 ...

More than 2,000 feet beneath the surface, Lake Whillans covers around 20 ... the world the first glimpse of what its like under this huge Antarctic ice sheet that was previously thought to be ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh went to Antarctica and became the first person to swim in a supraglacial lake to highlight climate change. A supraglacial lake is defined as “any pond of liquid ...

Antarctica is also home to over 400 subglacial lakes. The largest, Lake Vostok, lies under 2.5 miles (4 km) of ice near Russia's Vostok Station. "And what's in there? Probably microbes," Klages said.

If all of Antarctica’s ice melted, our coastlines would be drastically altered. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen ...