Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place. The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than ...

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

How much water, for example, will Antarctica's destabilized, Florida-sized Thwaites Glacier dump into the oceans in the ...

Antarctica is also home to the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" due to its potential to contribute to severe global sea level rise, should it continue to melt. "The ice loss ...