It's a majestic sight, with its buoyant front, or "ice shelf", pushing far out to sea and kicking off huge icebergs. But satellite monitoring indicates this glacier is melting at an accelerating rate.

A glacier known as ‘the doomsday glacier’ that has the potential to cause sea levels to rise across the planet could be on ...

Glaciologists have described Thwaites as the "most important" glacier in the world, the "riskiest" glacier, even the "doomsday" glacier ... into a jumble of massive icebergs which float in ...

A recent Dartmouth-led study has revealed that the worst predictions for ocean rise owing to melting ice sheets are not likely to happen. However, it doesn’t negate the fact the melting of ice ...

One proposal in the new report would pump seawater onto the surface of the Doomsday Glacier, where cold air temperatures would cause it to freeze in place and thus thicken the glacier. But the ...

A video of an iceberg flipping over in a glacier lagoon has captivated millions ... the natural process by which icebergs are formed. However, he suggested that the more likely explanation for ...

A Finnish scientist now wants to save the glacier with the help of an ambitious project. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is melting and causing sea levels to rise globally.

Meanwhile, in the Arctic Ocean, icebergs create a different, but almost as deafening, noise as they calve off Greenland's enormous tongues of glacier ice and break apart. Now, at both ends of the ...

It, along with the neighboring so-called “Doomsday Glacier,” Thwaites, are losing ice at an accelerated pace over the past several decades and have the potential to raise sea levels on their ...

In a display of nature's palette, NASA has released satellite imagery capturing colorful icebergs near the Amery Ice Shelf in east Antarctica. The vibrant blues, greens and even yellowish tones in ...