Tidal action pumping warmer sea water on the underside of the massive Thwaites Glacier will “inexorably” accelerate its melting this century, which could lead to the collapse of the entire West ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica may be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. A new study provides a close-up view ...

The video from deep within the glacier is absolutely stunning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a ...

Warm seawater is creeping beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, which is accelerating the melt of one of the planet’s most critical ice masses. That glacier, roughly the size of Florida, holds enough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, known as the Doomsday Glacier, is experiencing melting from churning underwater "storms." - Jeremy ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers trying to measure what’s happening to the rapidly melting Thwaites Glacier.

(CNN) — Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a ...