Glacier

Satellites spot rapid “Doomsday Glacier” collapse

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial…

3 months ago

Satellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever

A glacier on the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula has undergone the quickest ice loss documented in modern times, according to a…

3 months ago

Greenland Glacier Outburst Flood Releases 3,000 Billion Litres of Meltwater

A major glacial lake outburst flood, among the largest ever recorded, has been documented in East Greenland, releasing more than…

1 year ago

‘Vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites ‘Doomsday’ Glacier

A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find…

2 years ago

Enormous ice loss from Greenland glacier

Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N-Glacier…

2 years ago

80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse

There's enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet.…

2 years ago

Glacier Loss Day indi­cates record break­ing glacier melt

In the summer of 2022, one of Tyrol's largest glaciers experienced its most significant loss of mass on record. Last…

2 years ago