Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

With the potential to cause sea levels ... of the glacier, which is the same size as Great Britain. The data indicates that the Thwaites Glacier and much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could ...

A critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the sea is breaking up much faster than before and spawning huge ...

The study's findings suggest that future sea ... ice behind them "This study worsens the outlook for Thwaites Glacier, as we simulate rapidly increasing melting beneath its connected ice shelf ...

Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news, the worst-case scenario may be off the table.

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

If the glacier were to melt, the resulting sea level rise would impact hundreds of millions of people, the scientists say. However, there has been some good news about sea ice this week ...

If the glacier falls into the ocean, the average global sea level could rise by a total of 50 cm (around 20 inches). Scientists worry that once the ice shelf gives way, the glacier will quickly ...

Past climate changes in Earth's history have been accompanied by very large sea level changes. Just think of the Ice Ages that our planet has repeatedly gone through over the past two million ...

It's a majestic sight, with its buoyant front, or "ice shelf", pushing far out to sea and kicking off huge icebergs. But satellite monitoring indicates this glacier is melting at an accelerating rate.

The Thwaites Glacier is one of the largest and fastest-moving in the world. Along with the wider region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment ... the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf - which currently covers ...

The melting of the Thwaites Glacier — which is around the size of Florida — could raise sea levels by up to two ... Thwaites has been in part protected by an ice shelf that scientists have ...