The clock is ticking. But low clouds have prevented helicopters from moving scientists and gear onto the continent’s ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

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 ...

What has the glacier begun to do when it begins to “earthquake” hundreds of times? Thwaites Glacier, commonly referred to as ...

A huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier started to release on Tuesday, as officials urged residents in some parts of the state capital of Juneau to ...

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage ...

Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol ...

The United Nations called for global action to reduce climate change’s impact on water-related ecosystems in an international preservation conference on Friday. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina ...

In Switzerland, the Morteratsch-Pers glacier complex is rapidly shrinking. This ice cave, formed in 2023, marks a glacier gate where meltwater emerges. Without decisive climate action, Swiss glaciers ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their fate. A major new international study led by ETH Zurich has, for the ...