Far beneath the polar night, the front of Antarctica’s most feared ice stream is shuddering with a new kind of warning signal. Hundreds of tiny “iceberg quakes” are rippling through the seafloor as ...

The ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier is being hit by various earthquakes, which can increase the sea levels rapidly if the ...

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, ...

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier. The post Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 20-year satellite record shows that Thwaites Glacier’s eastern ice shelf is weakening through a clear, staged process driven by ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy ...

(Gray News) – Scientists said earthquakes have been shaking the Antarctic’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier. According to a study published last month, ice that has accumulated in ...

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