That’s what scientists are studying, currently, at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier – aka the “Doomsday Glacier – which can ...
It’s a rare sight to witness a glacier break apart and fall into the sea. But a handful of people were lucky enough to witness the extraordinary phenomena, recently, at the Bruggen Glacier in Chile. A ...
cracks and splits away from Antarctica, the world watches in stunned silence as nature displays its unstoppable power. The sight of an enormous slab of ice, sometimes the size of entire countries, ...
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 ...
Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...
Every time a glacier collapses in Antarctica, does a penguin get its wings? Bad jokes aside, Antarctica, the large ice continent on the underside of the earth, is home to many penguins and many ...
On October 25, a massive chunk of glacier broke away from the Ismoil Somoni Peak in Tajikistan’s Tajikabad district and thundered down the mountain. The ice mass – two kilometers long, 150-200 meters ...