Bad weather ​delayed expedition scientists’​ ​efforts to set up camp on Thwaites Glacier ​in Antarctica ​and take ...

Scientists aim to bore half a mile through the ice and place instruments in the warming ocean waters below, giving the world ...

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

Scientists have finally planted their boots on one of the most closely watched chunks of ice on Earth, also known as the "Doomsday glacier." After weather delays stranded them 19 miles short of their ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

From an icebreaker sailing near the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, our photographer has captured the many faces of the ice.

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, ...

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 ...

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

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation (THE CONVERSATION) ...

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 ...