Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Other mountains peek through land ice as seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft (Getty Images) Have you ever ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH – A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz advances the ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

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Suggested Citation: "Back to the Great White South." John Long. 2001. Mountains of Madness: A Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/9848. These immortal ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains ...