You may think of Antarctica as a sheet of clean ice covered in pristine snow, largely untouched by humans. That’s how its flag—designed by vexillologist Graham Bartram for an atlas in the early ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Global climate change threatens the stability of large expanses of the Antarctic ice sheet such as the infamous Thwaites Glacier. The ice sheet has lost more than 2,500 billion metric tons of ice ...

But Paul Morin and his mapmakers at the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota are doing all they can to change that with the cooperation of the Internet giant. “They’ve helped ...