Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

Under a very low-emissions scenario, the researchers found rebounding land reduced Antarctica’s contribution to global average sea level rise by over half a metre by 2500, compared with a model ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023 ... The most notable gains were in East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region, including the Totten, Denman, Moscow ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by ... is in danger of disintegrating under the pressure of countries ...

Antarctica is the fifth largest ... The behavior of Antarctic land ice varies from region to region, according to an analysis of the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017.