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 ...

Against their expectations, they found that the place with the thickest ice in Antarctica is an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, a district in the east of the continent. Previous surveys placed ...

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 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.

according to an analysis of the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017. In particular, the West Antarctic Peninsula has seen drastic ice retreat. On the other hand, East ...