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Scientists Warn Thwaites Glacier’s Eastern Ice Shelf Is About to Detach

The loss would let more ice reach the ocean for decades.

Hidden Under-Ice Channels Drive Rapid Melting on East Antarctic Shelf, Study Finds

Two New Studies Show Ocean Heat Is Supercharging Antarctic Ice Loss

Antarctic Surveys Find New Weddell Sea Islet and Under-Ice Erosion Hotspots

Antarctica’s A-23A Megaberg Disintegrates After Nearly 40 Years

Kashmir Study Flags Five Glacial Lakes at Very High Outburst Flood Risk

Arctic Winter Sea Ice Matches Record Low for Second Year, NASA and NSIDC Report

Germany Ends Glacier Skiing as New Data Confirm Accelerating Ice Loss

Austrian Alpine Club: 94 of 96 Glaciers Retreated in Two Years

Windracers ULTRA to Fly June Mission in Northwest Greenland to Map Ice Beneath Petermann Glacier

Argentina’s Lower House Sets Glacier Law Hearings as Registrations Surge

Antarctic Megaberg A23a Enters Final Weeks as Fragments Melt in the South Atlantic

New Antarctic Grounding-Line Record Finds 12,820 km² Ice Loss as West Antarctic Glaciers Retreat

Antarctic Grounding Line Has Lost About 13,000 Square Kilometers Since 1992, Study Finds

30-Year Map Finds 12,800 km² of Antarctic Grounded Ice Lost as 77% of Coastline Holds

Pakistan Weather Service Warns Winter Heat Is Raising Glacial Flood Risk in the North

Apostle Islands Ice Caves Close Again After Storm Shatters Access Ice

Thermal Convection Likely Drives Greenland’s Deep Ice Plumes, Study Finds

Scientists Recover Record 228-Meter Sub-Ice Sediment Core in West Antarctica

Record 228-Meter Core Recovered Beneath West Antarctic Ice Points to Past Open Ocean