An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday. The collapse, captured ...

Researchers believe they've discovered a cause of previous Antarctic ice shelf collapses, and it could be a warning sign of what's to come as our planet warms. In a study published in the journal ...

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

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday. The collapse, captured ...

cracks and splits away from Antarctica, the world watches in stunned silence as nature displays its unstoppable power. The sight of an enormous slab of ice, sometimes the size of entire countries, ...

Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

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A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...