The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of three ...
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...
A team led by Anna Wahlin, a professor of oceanographic physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, made a remarkable ...
Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...
The Thwaites Glacier, located in West Antarctica and popularly nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier,” holds enough ice to raise ...
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...
Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...
(CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications ...
Like many Antarctic glaciers, the Pine Island Glacier is melting. But Pine Island is melting faster than any other glacier in the world. Surprisingly, it's not climate change alone that is causing the ...
Hektoria Glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. This video illustrates ...