The alarm bells are ringing as experts closely monitor the precarious state of Thwaites Glacier, dubbed the 'Doomsday Glacier' in West Antarctica. With its eastern ice shelf nearing a critical break, ...

Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to ...

The fates of coastal cities worldwide, from New York to Manila, depend on a vast but little-understood Antarctic glacier that is losing ice alarmingly quickly. Now, extensive research efforts in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vital ice shelf is about to break away from Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier," further destabilizing one of the world's largest ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using satellite calibrated ice sheet models, a team of researchers from the ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica ...

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region ...

Known as Blood Falls, the rust-red cascade flows from the Taylor Glacier and has puzzled scientists for more than a century.