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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Just Lost Enough Ice to Cover Manhattan 5 Times OverAn enormous iceberg about five times the size of Manhattan broke off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier yesterday (Oct. 29), a mere month after a crack first appeared, satellite imagery shows.
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Why Does This Glacier Near Everest Make Loud Booming Sounds at Night?Each night, the glacier made noises loud enough to keep a team of scientists camping on its surface awake. They figured out why.
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Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know WhyTurns out, humans are shifting the planet's spin.
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Warnings Abounded Before Massive Alaska Landslide and TsunamiA 2015 landslide and tsunami in Alaska came after two decades of warning signs.
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Buried Volcanic Vent Heats Up Antarctica's Fastest-Melting GlacierWhat lurks beneath West Antarctica's frozen surface? Heat — and lots of it.
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Antarctica Is Melting Away: More Than 3 Trillion Tons of Ice Vanished Since 1992Trillions of tons of ice melted away from Antarctica during the past 25 years.
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'Cork' Glacier Holding Back Sea Level Rise May PopHow doomed are we?
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Greenland Has a Mysterious 'Dark Zone' — And It's Getting Even DarkerA new study investigates the dark zone that seems to be getting bigger on the western edge of the ice sheet.
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Antarctica's Underwater Ice Is Retreating 5 Times Faster Than It Should BeWhen you imagine an Antarctic glacier melting, you probably envision great walls of ice avalanching into the ocean. This is certainly happening — but it's only half the story.
