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 ...
Far beneath the polar night, the front of Antarctica’s most feared ice stream is shuddering with a new kind of warning signal ...
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.
Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...
Antarctica’s most watched glacier sits at the edge of a vast ice sheet, holding back enough frozen water to redraw the ...
Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the ...
For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” ...
A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat to the elements ...
Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...