Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on ...

It’s pretty incredible, but relic features on the seabed provide much more frequent sampling of ice sheet retreat than we have been able to achieve with satellites,” said Prof Andrew Shepherd of ...

When an Antarctic glacier was sparked into rapid retreat three years ago, it left scientists scratching their heads as to ...

Antarctic scientists have documented the fastest retreat of a glacier in modern history, after it lost eight kilometres of ...

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic ...

An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research.

Although there is no modern counterpart for such a swift retreat, other researchers have found evidence for Norwegian glaciers retreating almost as fast at the end of the last Ice Age, 15,000 to ...

The Pine Island Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by up to 10 feet, prompting ...