Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in…
Idyllic Swiss village stood for centuries – until a roaring glacier wiped it out
“I was speechless,” said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology….
Glacier collapse buries most of Swiss village
The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed…
Sand-sized fossils hold secrets to the history of climate change
Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot…
How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on…
Bizarre, nine-day seismic signal caused by epic landslide in Greenland
Enlarge Jason Edwards via Getty Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to…