As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...
Scientists said earthquakes have been shaking the Antarctic’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.
The glacier is reached via a three-hour boat ride north through the Ataa Strait from Ilulissat, Greenland's third-largest town on the west coast of the country. In winter, temperatures drop to -20°C ( ...
Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...
The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...
What has the glacier begun to do when it begins to “earthquake” hundreds of times? Thwaites Glacier, commonly referred to as ...