Deep beneath Antarctica’s thick ice, powerful whirlpools of water, called submesoscale eddies are speeding up the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. These spinning water masses, usually no more than six ...

Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

(CNN) — Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a ...

Far below the polar night, Antarctica’s most feared ice giant is shuddering. Seismic sensors are picking up a surge of tiny ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever looked at a world map and thought it was set in stone, think again. Glaciers around the globe are melting at an ...

Underwater “storms” are melting the ice shelf protecting the Thwaites “doomsday” glacier in Antarctica, raising concerns that we could be underestimating future sea level rise. Up to 10 kilometres ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...