The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...

The flow of ice at Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically due to the disintegration of the ice shelf in front of it, and this could lead to faster sea level rise ...

The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first time, scientists have found hundreds of special earthquakes at some of the ...

A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one-fifth ...