The ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier is being hit by various earthquakes, which can increase the sea levels rapidly if the ...
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 ...
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, ...
Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...
A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...
Bad weather ​delayed expedition scientists’​ ​efforts to set up camp on Thwaites Glacier ​in Antarctica ​and take ...
There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...
An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...