Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

But scientists have discovered a layer of fresh water hidden beneath the ice-covered ... and diversity of food webs in Antarctic permanently ice-covered lakes, with symbiotic and predatory ...

“The lake held more water than Sydney Harbor and the flow into the ocean beneath ... ice-covered lakes are on ice shelves and how they evolve.” In recent decades, some Antarctic ice shelves ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice ... inaccessible ecosystem hundreds of meters beneath the surface. A team from the Schmidt ...

The discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet. Little is known about what dwells beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves.

But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very detailed map of everything beneath the millions of miles of ice.

The team conducted joint air-ground experiments using helicopters and snowmobiles to successfully carry out remote sensing detection of temperature distribution beneath the Antarctic ice.