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 ...

Endres via Getty Images Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer ... Yet researchers have only scratched the surface of what lies under the mysterious continent.

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 ...

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.