Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are a massive mountain belt that spans Antarctica, separating the eastern part of the continent from the west. Most of the continent is covered in ice or seawater, ...

A team of scientists led by David Amblàs, from the Consolidated Research Group in Marine Geosciences at the University of ...

Here, the new satellite reveals stunning variety within the tropical forest landscape. Green hues indicate forested areas; ...

Finally, the Transantarctic Mountains run north to south, splitting the continent into East and West Antarctica. Mount Vinson is in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.

The Transantarctic Mountains, stretching an impressive 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers), lie quietly beneath Antarctica’s icy surface. But their history dates back hundreds of millions of years ...

A group of scientists from Brigham Young University and the University of Colorado have found a remote location deep in the icy heart of Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains where the soil contains ...

The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed. In a new study ...

Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. That’s the key finding of our new research, which ...

Image caption, There are some mountains above ground level, like the Transantarctic Mountains here, but it's deep under the ice where the real drama is... 6 June 2025 When you think of Antarctica ...