In this illustration, seawater flows deep below the surface into an actively opening ice shelf rift in Antarctica. New research shows that such rifts can open very quickly, and that the seawater ...

Antarctica's Thwaites glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" because of its potential to drive alarming sea level rise, isn't melting at a pace as fast as feared – but deep fractures in the ice ...

Antarctica’s most feared ice giant is no longer just slipping quietly into the sea. For the first time, scientists are watching the Thwaites Glacier, widely known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” fracture ...

The massive floating ice shelf that stabilises the glacier is starting to detach.

Scientists have developed artificial intelligence techniques to track the development of crevasses -- or fractures -- on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in west Antarctica. A team of scientists has ...

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New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. A 6.5-mile crack formed in 2012 over 5-and-a-half minutes, showing that ice shelves can effectively shatter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's Thwaites glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" because of its potential to drive alarming sea level rise, isn ...