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 ...

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 ...

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 ...