You may think of Antarctica as a sheet of clean ice covered in pristine snow, largely untouched by humans. That’s how its flag—designed by vexillologist Graham Bartram for an atlas in the early ...

Global climate change threatens the stability of large expanses of the Antarctic ice sheet such as the infamous Thwaites Glacier. The ice sheet has lost more than 2,500 billion metric tons of ice ...

Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Lake Vanda in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry ...

Bedmap3 uncovers fresh details of Antarctica’s hidden landscape, from its ice-covered peaks to its deep valleys. Data by Pritchard, H., et al. (BAS) A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to ...

But Paul Morin and his mapmakers at the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota are doing all they can to change that with the cooperation of the Internet giant. “They’ve helped ...