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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

Over 300 earthquakes in Antarctica have gone undetected for more than a decade. A scientist has found that the Thwaites ...

Antarctica’s most watched glacier sits at the edge of a vast ice sheet, holding back enough frozen water to redraw the world’s coastlines if it lets go. Scientists have spent years warning that this ...

Scientists have never loved the scary nickname journalists have given the glacier where the current Antarctic expedition is headed: the “Doomsday Glacier.” Yes, the Thwaites Glacier is the size of ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. By Raymond Zhong Scientists have never loved the scary ...

The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the “Doomsday Glacier” — because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound ...