The Waiho Loop moraine in New Zealand's southern Alps had long been viewed as a southern icon of a recent glacier response to cooling climate, possibly the Younger Dryas cold event. But a closer look ...

From orbit, much of Greenland appears seamless. A white expanse, unbroken, stretching across the map like a frozen shield.

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...

Using satellite data and the physics of ice flow, researchers have mapped Antarctica’s hidden subglacial bedrock landscape – one of the Solar System’s least mapped planetary surfaces – in ...