Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...
When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...
Scientists aren't being dramatic when they call it the Doomsday Glacier. Melting at Thwaites, an expanse of ice bigger than ...
Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula -- a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded ...
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...
Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. A large tabular iceberg (42 kilometers x 17 kilometers) broke off Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica (75ºS latitude ...
SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND — The world's largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it's no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. The shrinking ...
It's been a long and unusual journey for the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, but it's ending in a relatively usual way: breaking apart and melting in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic ...
The world’s biggest iceberg, once larger than Rhode Island, has lost nearly 80% of its size since May, according to scientists at the British Antarctic Survey. The massive ice formation, known as A23a ...