Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...
Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...
How much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee ...
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...
Scientists detected hundreds of hidden icequakes at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, revealing glacial seismic activity linked to iceberg calving and improving predictions of future sea-level rise.
The Thwaites Glacier, located in West Antarctica and popularly nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier,” holds enough ice to raise ...
Thanh-Son Pham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere ...
Thwaites, the most studied glacier in the world, commands attention because it is not only the widest in the world at 80 miles but also the shakiest. And ...
The glacier's collapse could severely impact coastal cities worldwide due to rising sea levels. Scientists have recently detected hundreds of earthquakes on the continent. According to a new study, a ...
Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...
Far beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica’s most feared ice giant, scientists have picked up a new kind of warning signal: ...