Satellites Capture the Hidden World Beneath Antarctica’s Ice
The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen…
Hundreds of Earthquakes Are Rocking One of Earth’s Most Dangerous Glaciers
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, aptly nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier, is a ticking time bomb. The rapidly melting body of…
Scientists Went Looking for Shackleton’s Endurance. They found a Hidden Fish City in Perfect Formation Instead
While tracing the footsteps of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ill-fated Endurance ship, researchers discovered hundreds…
Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in the last 4,000 years. Here’s why
Published on 20/10/2025 – 12:25 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in the…
‘Enormous’ melting sees Swiss glaciers shrink by 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record
By JAMEY KEATEN with AP Published on 02/10/2025 – 9:42 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with…
The Lessons of a Glacier’s Collapse
In mid-May, at about ten thousand feet above sea level, a rocky mountainside in the Swiss Alps gave…
Italy’s Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely
By SILVIA STELLACCI with AP Published on 19/08/2025 – 10:10 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern…
Juneau residents urged to evacuate as Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of…
Ice dam at glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials…
Meltwater bursts through Greenland ice in first-of-a-kind eruption
Satellite image of the subglacial lake region after the outburst flood occurred, showing the fracturing of the ice…