After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing ...

The frozen edges of Antarctica are less stable than they appear. Beneath the wide, seemingly immovable shelves of ice, the ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

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 ...

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

The sea ice changed completely over the course of a few hours, from disconnected floes to a vast, snow-covered plain.

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among the fastest-melting ...

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 ...

Deep beneath the thick layer of million-year-old ice, something is lurking quietly, waiting to rip through the rigid ice ...

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