After scientists reported a brief but notable uptick in ice mass in Antarctica, climate skeptics utilized the data to claim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.