Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

Scientists said earthquakes have been shaking the Antarctic’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake ...

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

The team studied a series of climate forcings to determine the primary factor that is making Antarctica's ice sheets ...

Four LC-130 Skibirds are shuttling between Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station and other locations in Antarctica ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Vicki Koterba is preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica, heading south on a Smithsonian-sponsored educational ...