The ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier is being hit by various earthquakes, which can increase the sea levels rapidly if the ice collapses.

Scientists aim to bore half a mile through the ice and place instruments in the warming ocean waters below, giving the world ...

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier. The post Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes appeared first on Futurism.

Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 20-year satellite record shows that Thwaites Glacier’s eastern ice shelf is weakening through a clear, staged process driven by ...

A team of researchers has successfully set up an outpost on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica's fastest melting glacier, to monitor its rapid disintegration.

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded by absorbing more carbon. "That ice going allows that new life to come and ...

CNN — Antarctica's so-called "doomsday glacier" -- nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level -- has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Debangshu Banerjee, a recent graduate of the Centre for Earth Observation Sciences at the University of Manitoba, with Dr. Karen Alley of the same center and Dr. David Lilien of Indiana University ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...