Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an ...
The Thwaites Glacier, known as the “Doomsday Glacier” due to its potential to trigger massive sea level rise, is showing alarming signs of instability. Stretching nearly 80 miles across, this colossal ...
From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out “pops” of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long resulted in soundscapes both fascinating and moving. A new recording of a melting ...
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. Known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” the Thwaites ...
Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place. The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than ...
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday. Experts ...
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in the Amundsen Sea After ...
When Ted Scambos visited the Arapaho Glacier in 2021, it was dramatically smaller compared to when he first saw it nearly 20 years earlier. Scambos, a University of Colorado Boulder senior research ...
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it collapsing in record time. The rapid breakup was driven by a flat, underwater ...