The word "crevasse" originates from the Old French word crevace, meaning "crevice," which in turn comes from the verb crever, ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was alarming.

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Scientists believe this pattern of weakening could be an early warning for other Antarctic ice shelves as well.

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

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

Fodor's Travel released its No List, a roundup of eight popular destinations to reconsider visiting in 2026. Here's why.

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder identified a process that caused a glacier in Antarctica to retreat faster than ...

Antarctica’s glacier retreated at an unprecedented speed, shrinking 25 kilometers in just 15 months. Find out how.

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When polar explorer Robert Swan leads his Ice Station Expedition to Antarctica in December, Big ...