While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

Scientists believe this pattern of weakening could be an early warning for other Antarctic ice shelves as well.

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder identified a process that caused a glacier in Antarctica to retreat faster than ...

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...

A new study led by scientists at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Earth Observation Science offers the most comprehensive account to date of how the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf in West ...

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 ...

Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier,' Thwaites, is collapsing faster than anticipated, threatening catastrophic sea level rise.

The Thwaites Glacier on Antarctica’s western coast has long been considered one of the most unstable on the continent. Now, scientists are worried about the discovery of an enormous underwater cavity ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...

The Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica has lost half of its ice in roughly two months. Researchers say this lightning-fast retreat is reminiscent of the Ice Ages, and could signal a bigger concern when it ...

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