A remote glacier in West Antarctica, roughly the size of Florida, has earned the ominous nickname the Doomsday Glacier ...
With approximately one-third of the world's population living within a day's walk of a coastline, sea-level rise poses a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vital ice shelf is about to break away from Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier," further destabilizing one of the world's largest ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The ...
A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50% of the glacier disintegrated. A new CU Boulder-led study, ...
A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...
UC Davis scientists are in Antarctica to deploy Gull, an autonomous underwater vehicle known as a glider, that will help us understand how fast one of the world’s biggest and most important glaciers — ...
Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to ...
In a groundbreaking initiative, scientists are working to revive deep-sea coral ecosystems that were harmed by an oil spill.
The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...
Scientists have documented what they say is the quickest retreat of an Antarctic glacier in modern history. Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula shortened by 25 kilomeres in just 15 months, ...
Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity ...