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Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” – nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise – is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research.
A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...
Scientists aren’t too optimistic and have said there’s a 'grim outlook' if the glacier melts, plunging parts of the world ...
A new science briefing has revealed there is a "grim outlook" for Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, also known as the 'Doomsday Glacier', which if it melts could plunge parts of the world underwater.
In fact, researchers predict that the glacier could collapse completely within 200 years, which could cause global sea levels to rise by up to ten feet, Earth reports.
A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier ...
"While the man was stuck in the glacier ice, his faithful companion, a small chihuahua, was left at the edge of the crevasse, ...
A collapsing glacier roared down a mountainside in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday. It wiped out one village in its path. The destruction it caused surprised officials who blamed climate change.
A collapsing glacier destroyed a Swiss village. Is climate change to blame? The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...
Europe Glacier collapses, burying nearly all of Swiss Alpine village “We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud.
A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...