Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it collapsing in record time. The rapid breakup was driven by a flat, underwater ...

A ‘lightning-fast’ melting event astonished the scientific community when researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a ...

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an ...

Hektoria Glacier (Antarctica) retreated 8 kilometers (5 miles) in only two months; one-half of the structure collapsing in record time. This is the fastest glacier collapse ever, and the message to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thwaites Glacier, on the northern edge of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf, is concerningly close to collapse because warm waters are ...

On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...

Switzerland has lost roughly a quarter of its glacier volume over about a decade, and annual losses are approaching historic highs. Scientists tracking Alpine ice say melt speed keeps increasing, even ...

As climate change accelerates, the World Meteorological Organisation is calling for more investment in monitoring and forecasting of glaciers to help protect mountain communities. Glacier-related ...

A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a bid to stop it collapsing into the ocean, triggering a disastrous rise ...