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 ...

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

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

Far beneath the polar night, the front of Antarctica’s most feared ice stream is shuddering with a new kind of warning signal ...

Scientists first identified glacial earthquakes only about two decades ago, mainly in Greenland. Advances in seismic ...

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

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

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

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

A journey through crushing sea ice, polar research stations and wildlife encounters reveals the Arctic in all its stark ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...