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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets Antarctica

Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice sheet’s Achilles heel. The ice sheet is the continent’s enormous, kilometres-thick mass of land-based…
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January 21, 2026
Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Shrouds a Vast Landscape of Alpine Valleys and Ice Rivers Antarctica

Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Shrouds a Vast Landscape of Alpine Valleys and Ice Rivers

There are areas on Earth that are less understood than the surfaces of some worlds in our Solar System. Antarctica’s landscape beneath its immense ice sheet is one of them. Hidden from view, this buried terrain still holds many secrets and revealing them could significantly improve our understanding of ice…
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January 17, 2026
Beneath the ice: Satellites help map Antarctica’s subglacial surface like never before Antarctica

Beneath the ice: Satellites help map Antarctica’s subglacial surface like never before

True-color satellite image of Earth centred on the South Pole with cloud coverage, during winter solstice at 12 a.m GMT. This image in orthographic projection was compiled from data acquired by the Landsat 5 & 7 satellites. (Image credit: Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) One of the least-mapped…
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January 16, 2026
New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice Antarctica

New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice

It's easy to see features like Stonington Island off the west coast of Graham Island, Antarctica, but now a new map shows scientists what lies beneath in unprecedented detail. (Image credit: kitz-travellers/Getty Images) Scientists have mapped the bedrock beneath Antarctica 's massive ice sheet in unprecedented detail, revealing hidden structures…
bubmag
January 15, 2026
A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers Antarctica

A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to study as global warming melts glaciers around the world. An ice core is something of an atmospheric time capsule...Read More
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January 15, 2026