Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Image shows the Concordia Station, where the Ice Memory Sanctuary is being built in Antarctica ...

Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

An international team of scientists' mission to drill the rapidly melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is being thwarted by unpredictable weather conditions.

Scientists are within minutes of the Thwaites Glacier, but shifting clouds and poor visibility are threatening a narrow ...

The clock is ticking. But low clouds have prevented helicopters from moving scientists and gear onto the continent’s ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

It has been done, though, in the past. Surfing calving glaciers has long been considered one of the preeminent novelty ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...