An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. Known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” the Thwaites ...

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Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol ...

Thanh-Son Pham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere ...

For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...

Travel experts say you shouldn’t visit them in 2026. According to Fodor’s recently released “No List” — a list of eight places all over the world compiled by the travel guidebook company — Glacier ...

The remains of a climber who went missing in 1994 have been found on a Swiss glacier, police said. Climbers ascending the Ober Gabelhorn mountain discovered human remains on Oct. 15, the southern ...

A new study suggests the Hektoria Glacier, seen here in 2024, shrank by 16 miles between January 2022 and March 2023—and five miles in November and December 2022 alone. Naomi Ochwat Researchers have ...

More than five miles of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times as fast as the previous record, with possible implications for the stability of other glaciers and ...

The calving was so drastic that it caused measurable earthquakes in the region. An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research ...

Scientists have documented what they say is the quickest retreat of an Antarctic glacier in modern history. Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula shortened by 25 kilomeres in just 15 months, ...