Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

Far beneath the polar night, the front of Antarctica’s most feared ice stream is shuddering with a new kind of warning signal ...

Far below the polar night, Antarctica’s most feared ice giant is shuddering. Seismic sensors are picking up a surge of tiny ...

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 ...

Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...