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Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to ...

On October 25, a two-kilometer-long chunk of ice broke off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier in eastern Tajikistan, roaring down a gorge for nearly three hours before finally coming to a halt. It's attached ...

When I think about the Arctic, I picture frigid waters filled with narwhals, polar bears and icebergs. I asked my friend Von Walden how those icebergs got there. He’s a polar scientist at Washington ...

When the edge of a Greenland glacier breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg, can a global seismic network "hear" it? The answer is yes—but only if the event is a large one. And it helps to pair ...

Yesterday, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off from Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest and just the latest in a process scientists attribute to global warming. The iceberg that ...